Why is power management always one of the hardest things to get right?

Linux on laptops, a few years ago: video works, audio works, wifi works, suspend.... uh... if you poke it the right way

nouveau, now: 2D works, 3D works, modesetting works, outputs work, HDMI audio works, power management... uh.. WIP

Pinephone & Librem 5: wifi works, calling works, SMS works, convergence works, power management... uh... WIP

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@wolf480pl Power management works fine if you don't care about getting phone calls :p

@swiley and if you don't care about waking up, or so I've heard

@wolf480pl This isn't a problem I have on PMOS (this has megi Linux 5.11) with my custom power management service. In fact, what I wrote actually wakes the phone up every 5 minutes so my email and IM clients can check for messages. I've had it fail to do a VT switch a couple times but it's pretty reliable

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