From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:56:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:56:03 -0500 Received: from poup.poupinou.org ([195.101.94.96]:8244 "EHLO poup.poupinou.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:56:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 21:05:21 +0100 To: Pavel Machek Cc: "Grover, Andrew" , ducrot@poupinou.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH] s4bios for 2.5.59 + apci-20030123 Message-ID: <20030205200521.GN1205@poup.poupinou.org> References: <20030204221003.GA250@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030204221003.GA250@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Ducrot Bruno Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:10:04PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > This patch is for s4bios support in 2.5.59 with acpi-20030123. > > > > > > This is the 'minimal' requirement. Some devices (especially the > > > IDE part) are not well resumed. Handle with care.. > > > > > > Note also that the resuming part (I mean IDE) was more stable > > > with an equivalent patch when I tested with 2.5.54 (grumble > > > grumble)... > > > > > > I think also that it is a 'good' checker for devices power management > > > in general... > > > > I'd really rather just have S4OS (aka swsusp) in 2.5 patches -- if the > > OS can do S4 on its own, that is really preferable to S4bios. > > Well, we already have S4OS, and having S4OS does not mean we can't > have S4bios. > > Some people apparently want slower suspend/resume but have all caches > intact when resumed. Thats not easy for swsusp but they can have that > with S4bios. And S4bios is usefull for testing device support; it > seems to behave slightly differently to S3 meaning better testing. > Yep, correct. The problem is that now I have more trouble with s4bios in general with 2.5. That worked more reliability with 'older' 2.5 series. Really don't know why. Cheers, -- Ducrot Bruno -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.