Subject: Re: Mobilepro battery life.
To: None <forest@alittletooquiet.net>
From: M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 08/24/2006 12:37:46
In message: <20060728203318.GB20009@localdomain>
            Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net> writes:
: My MP 780 gets terrible battery life: 20% or so of what it gets under CE.
: NetBSD does not utilize the power management features as well as CE (those
: features are probably not documented anywhere, perhaps).

Part of the problem isn't so much documentation, but design.  NetBSD
isn't running out of ROM (or flash), WinCE is.  This means that WinCE
can hibernate the CPU when it isn't in use and NetBSD can't.  This is
because the reset vector for coming out of hibernate mode is in
ROM...

Warner