[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo alarms ==> retutime

[From: Igor Stoppa]

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 13:29 +0200, ext Nils Faerber wrote:
[snip]
> And even worse since the alarms can only be set <24h in advance does
> that indeed mean that every application that wants to use alarms would
> have to handle this nasty 24h hopping on its own? I.e. if the alarm is
> more than 24h in the future then set an alarm for <24h, then check again
> and set a new alarm until it is less than 24h away?
> 
> That is messy, indeed.
Sure. A framework would help but the hw limitation is still there.

> And besides why didn't RETU get a pretty normal RTC device driver :) ?
> That would have made things a lot easier...
=) Something I've been asking for long time, but apparently certain ASIC designers have
funny (fuzzy?) ideas about HW/SW interactions.

However 770 is the first device without gsm radio. Phones don't care
about long off periods because tipically they have to wake up
periodically to chat with the base station.


-- 
Cheers,
           Igor

Igor Stoppa (Nokia M - OSSO / Tampere)