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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 08:52 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> > Another issue that's been a problem forever with suspend is the
> > synchronous request_firmware interface. Lots of drivers do that in
> > resume() which will generally not work.
> 
> Unfortunately yes they do. We now have the notifier chains, which
> can be used. Firmware, especially if it is large, must be requested
> while the system is still fully functional and paging will work.
> 
> Asynchronocity will not help much because the devices must work
> after resumingand delaying that will not help with respect to needing
> devices to get at the firmware.

True, pre-loading is the best approach.

Ben.