[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

[From: Dave Neuer]

On 1/16/06, Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:21 +0200, ext Weinehall David (Nokia-M/Tampere)
> wrote:
> >
> > A mechanism for wake-up from power-off exists (yes, it's a bit sucky,
> > so we'll have to have a workaround for alarms >24h into the future,
> > but at least it's possible) -- check
> >
> > Power management efficient enough to make suspend meaningless -- check
> >
> > I cannot really understand why a lot of people here seem to want
> > crippled functionality just because other platforms have limitations.
>
> I understand that if we want to have a consistent crossdevice platform,
> then it should be able to deal with other hw that doesn't have as many
> power management features as Omap, but that is not really a good reason
> to discard what we _do_ have.
>
> Suspend is good compared to poweroff because it can retain the state of
> the device and usually trim down startup/shutdown times, but it's
> useless if the device actually manages to transparently and silently
> save energy.

I agree. There is the issue of API -- that is where cross-platform
comes in. Designing a good API for this IMO would take the ALSA
approach; the API should have sane defaults and the library sane
default configurations to make simpler hardware work w/ minimal
effort, but don't dumb down the interface or implementation to the
point where more advanced hardware can't be fully exploited.

Dave