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On Mon, 31 May 2010, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> For MSM hardware, it looks possible to unify the S and C states by doing
> suspend to ram from idle but I'm not sure how much work that is.

On ARM, it's not rocket science and we have in tree support for this
already (OMAP). I have done the same thing on a Samsung part as a
prove of concept two years ago and it's really easy as the hardware is
sane. Hint: It's designed for mobile devices :)

Thanks,

	tglx