2 bool "Power Management support"
3 depends on !IA64_HP_SIM
5 "Power Management" means that parts of your computer are shut
6 off or put into a power conserving "sleep" mode if they are not
7 being used. There are two competing standards for doing this: APM
8 and ACPI. If you want to use either one, say Y here and then also
9 to the requisite support below.
11 Power Management is most important for battery powered laptop
12 computers; if you have a laptop, check out the Linux Laptop home
13 page on the WWW at <http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/> or
14 Tuxmobil - Linux on Mobile Computers at <http://www.tuxmobil.org/>
15 and the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from
16 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
18 Note that, even if you say N here, Linux on the x86 architecture
19 will issue the hlt instruction if nothing is to be done, thereby
20 sending the processor to sleep and saving power.
23 bool "Legacy Power Management API (DEPRECATED)"
27 Support for pm_register() and friends. This old API is obsoleted
33 bool "Power Management Debug Support"
36 This option enables verbose debugging support in the Power Management
37 code. This is helpful when debugging and reporting various PM bugs,
40 config DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND
41 bool "Keep console(s) enabled during suspend/resume (DANGEROUS)"
42 depends on PM && PM_DEBUG
45 This option turns off the console suspend mechanism that prevents
46 debug messages from reaching the console during the suspend/resume
47 operations. This may be helpful when debugging device drivers'
48 suspend/resume routines, but may itself lead to problems, for example
49 if netconsole is used.
52 bool "Suspend/resume event tracing"
53 depends on PM && PM_DEBUG && X86_32 && EXPERIMENTAL
56 This enables some cheesy code to save the last PM event point in the
57 RTC across reboots, so that you can debug a machine that just hangs
58 during suspend (or more commonly, during resume).
60 To use this debugging feature you should attempt to suspend the machine,
61 then reboot it, then run
63 dmesg -s 1000000 | grep 'hash matches'
65 CAUTION: this option will cause your machine's real-time clock to be
66 set to an invalid time after a resume.
68 config PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
69 bool "Driver model /sys/devices/.../power/state files (DEPRECATED)"
70 depends on PM && SYSFS
73 The driver model started out with a sysfs file intended to provide
74 a userspace hook for device power management. This feature has never
75 worked very well, except for limited testing purposes, and so it will
76 be removed. It's not clear that a generic mechanism could really
77 handle the wide variability of device power states; any replacements
78 are likely to be bus or driver specific.
80 config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
81 bool "Software Suspend (Hibernation)"
82 depends on PM && SWAP && (((X86 || PPC64_SWSUSP) && (!SMP || SUSPEND_SMP)) || ((FRV || PPC32) && !SMP))
84 Enable the suspend to disk (STD) functionality, which is usually
85 called "hibernation" in user interfaces. STD checkpoints the
86 system and powers it off; and restores that checkpoint on reboot.
88 You can suspend your machine with 'echo disk > /sys/power/state'.
89 Alternatively, you can use the additional userland tools available
90 from <http://suspend.sf.net>.
92 In principle it does not require ACPI or APM, although for example
93 ACPI will be used for the final steps when it is available. One
94 of the reasons to use software suspend is that the firmware hooks
95 for suspend states like suspend-to-RAM (STR) often don't work very
98 It creates an image which is saved in your active swap. Upon the next
99 boot, pass the 'resume=/dev/swappartition' argument to the kernel to
100 have it detect the saved image, restore memory state from it, and
101 continue to run as before. If you do not want the previous state to
102 be reloaded, then use the 'noresume' kernel command line argument.
103 Note, however, that fsck will be run on your filesystems and you will
104 need to run mkswap against the swap partition used for the suspend.
106 It also works with swap files to a limited extent (for details see
107 <file:Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt>).
109 Right now you may boot without resuming and resume later but in the
110 meantime you cannot use the swap partition(s)/file(s) involved in
111 suspending. Also in this case you must not use the filesystems
112 that were mounted before the suspend. In particular, you MUST NOT
113 MOUNT any journaled filesystems mounted before the suspend or they
114 will get corrupted in a nasty way.
116 For more information take a look at <file:Documentation/power/swsusp.txt>.
118 config PM_STD_PARTITION
119 string "Default resume partition"
120 depends on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
123 The default resume partition is the partition that the suspend-
124 to-disk implementation will look for a suspended disk image.
126 The partition specified here will be different for almost every user.
127 It should be a valid swap partition (at least for now) that is turned
128 on before suspending.
130 The partition specified can be overridden by specifying:
132 resume=/dev/<other device>
134 which will set the resume partition to the device specified.
136 Note there is currently not a way to specify which device to save the
137 suspended image to. It will simply pick the first available swap
142 depends on HOTPLUG_CPU && (X86 || PPC64) && PM
146 tristate "Advanced Power Management Emulation"
147 depends on PM && SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION
149 APM is a BIOS specification for saving power using several different
150 techniques. This is mostly useful for battery powered laptops with
151 APM compliant BIOSes. If you say Y here, the system time will be
152 reset after a RESUME operation, the /proc/apm device will provide
153 battery status information, and user-space programs will receive
154 notification of APM "events" (e.g. battery status change).
156 In order to use APM, you will need supporting software. For location
157 and more information, read <file:Documentation/pm.txt> and the
158 Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO, available from
159 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
161 This driver does not spin down disk drives (see the hdparm(8)
162 manpage ("man 8 hdparm") for that), and it doesn't turn off
163 VESA-compliant "green" monitors.
165 Generally, if you don't have a battery in your machine, there isn't
166 much point in using this driver and you should say N. If you get
167 random kernel OOPSes or reboots that don't seem to be related to
168 anything, try disabling/enabling this option (or disabling/enabling