[LPIA Hardy LUM] Disable RTC wake alarm to reduce power in Hibernate

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Mar 17 17:55:20 UTC 2009


Colin Ian King wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/dennis/+bug/337943
> 
> Bug: LP#337943
> 
> LPIA Hardy Lum
> 
> Add sysfs control to enable or disable RTC Event Enable (RTC_EN) bit
> of port ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK because the BIOS overlooked this
> functionality on the HP Mini. Disabling this before hibernate saves
> several mAh.
> 
> Also tidied up whitespace/tab indentation and formatting.
> 
> Note that this extends the existing power management tweaks for this
> particular netbook specific module.
> 
> Colin
> 
> 

Colin - would you separate this into 2 patches? One patch just for
format changes, and a second with the RTC updates.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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