From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261433AbVFBWS4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 18:18:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261434AbVFBWS4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 18:18:56 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:64721 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261433AbVFBWSy (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jun 2005 18:18:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC] Add some hooks to generic suspend code From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Stefan Seyfried Cc: Pavel Machek , Linux-pm mailing list , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: <429F321D.9000009@suse.de> References: <1117524577.5826.35.camel@gaston> <20050531101344.GB9614@elf.ucw.cz> <1117550660.5826.42.camel@gaston> <20050531212556.GA14968@elf.ucw.cz> <429F321D.9000009@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:18:00 +1000 Message-Id: <1117750680.31082.81.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:21 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > >> Sure, ideally. However, existing X knows how to deal with APM events, > >> and thus APM emulation is an important thing to get something that > >> works. Pne thing I should do is consolidate PPC APM emu with ARM one as > >> I think Russell improve my stuff significantly. > > > > Perhaps we need apm emulation on i386, too? > > No. This is too ugly for words IMO. If we have one good mechanism of > notifying userland, X can use this mechanism. Let's kill APM, not keep > it alive. Euh... maybe but I still think we need to keep this userland interface alive for a little while. At least ARM and PPC have existing stuff that rely on it. Ben.