[2008.testing] GPS after resume

[Yorick Moko]

nice!

but would it not be possible to let the gps poweroff and artificially
"feed" it the last known sattelite positions? so that i can get a
hot-start after suspend, without using more power?

anyway, thanks for your contribution!
y

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Vladimir Koutny <vlado at moko.ksp.sk> wrote:
>> i was thinking about this the other day. the gps has it's own
>> processor, correct, and can act independently of the cpu? i'm
>> wondering if it's possible for the gps to keep it's fix while the main
>> cpu is in suspend. power usage will be higher than a full suspend, but
>> the phone will have a fix as soon as it resumes. is there any reason
>> why this can't happen?
>
> I wrote attached patch for this few days ago - it is against mwester's stable
> kernel so probably still needs some tweaks for 2.6.28 series.
>
> Simply 'echo 1 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/keep_on_in_suspend'
> and it will stay alive during suspend (echo 0 to turn it off - this is also the
> default).
>
> It also fixes a bug with re-enabling GPS on resume when it was on before
> (keep_on_in_suspend=0).
>
> I'm going to split this into 2 patches and send it to devel soon.
>
> vlado
>
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