SPARC Only: USB Power Management

If the system has enabled power management, the USB framework makes a best effort to power-manage all devices. Power-managing a USB device involves the hub driver to suspend the port to which the device is connected. The device might or might not support remote wakeup. If the device supports remote wakeup, it wakes up the hub it is connected to, depending on the event, such as moving the mouse. The host system could also wake the device if an application sends an I/O to it.

All HID (keyboard, mouse, and so forth), hub, and storage devices are power-managed by default if they support the remote wake up capability. A USB printer is power-managed only between two print jobs.

When you power-manage to reduce power consumption, USB leaf devices are powered down first, and after some delay, the parent hub is powered down. When all devices that are connected to this hub's ports are powered down, the hub is powered down after some delay. Avoid cascading many hubs to achieve the most efficient power management.