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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
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