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>Changing Power Modes&nbsp;--&nbsp;reducing or increasing power consumption as needed</DIV
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>#include &lt;cyg/power/power.h&gt;</PRE
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>    void power_set_mode
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>    void power_set_controller_mode
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>Changing the Global Power Mode</H2
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>The primary functionality supported by the power management package is
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to change the system's global power mode. This is achieved by calling
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the function <TT
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>power_set_mode</TT
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> with a single
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>A typical system will contain a policy module which is primarily
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responsible for initiating power mode changes, and a thread inside the
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power management package. The policy module will call
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manipulating some internal state in the power management package and
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waking up its thread. When this thread gets scheduled to run (its
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priority is controlled by a configuration option), it will iterate
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over the power controllers and invoke each controller to change its
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power mode. There is support for a <A
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> power controllers.</P
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>After a call to <TT
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>power_set_mode</TT
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> but before the
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power management thread has had a chance to iterate over all the
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controllers, or even before the thread has been rescheduled at all,
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the policy module may decide that a different power mode would be more
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appropriate for the current situation and calls
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>power_set_mode</TT
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> again. This has the effect of
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aborting the previous mode change, followed by the power management
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thread iterating over the power controllers again for the new mode.</P
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>If there is no single policy module responsible for power mode
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changes, any code can call <TT
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>As a special case, it is possible for a power controller to call
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> when invoked by the power
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is inappropriate for the system to go to sleep because the device it
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is associated with is still busy. The effect is as if the policy
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module had called <TT
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the mode change had completed.</P
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>If the power management package has been configured not to use a
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separate thread then obviously the behaviour is somewhat different.
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<TT
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behaviour of the system is undefined. However, it is still legal for a
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power controller to call <TT
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invoked safely from DSR context. If the system is configured not to
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use such a thread, it may or may not be safe to invoke this function
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from DSR context: essentially the function just iterates through
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the various power controllers, and the documentation or source code of
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each controller present in the current system will have to be examined
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controller separately from the mode for the system as a whole. For
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