On 29.10.2012 12:12, Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Daniel Mack [off-list ref] wrote:

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Well, there's an issue - Z2 does not preserve memory contents in deep sleep
(but it does in sleep), so userspace can't be fixed here unfortunatelly.
There's no another possibility to turn Z2 off, and plain sleep is too
power hungry.
So the only way to keep Z2 in low-power mode is fake power off, which just puts
Z2 in deep sleep.

Why can't the userspace trigger a deep sleep then instead of powering
off? Which details do I lack?

How? echo mem >/sys/power/state puts system into non-deep sleep. Anyway, kernel
is not ready for fake power off instead of suspend (we can't resume
from deep sleep,
memory content is not preserved), so there can be some data loss.
Adding some sysfs file to control sleep type does not look like a good
idea to me.

Btw, how other DT-capable boards handle power off?

No idea. I never actually used that kind of power state.