Re: Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon)

Nigel Cunningham
2005-02-05T09:44:20Z

Hi.

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 20:31, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > battery does not run out, you just do resume-from-RAM"? Wow. Nice
> > > trick...
> > >
> > > But it has same video problems as suspend-to-RAM, no? On how many
> > > machines does it work?
> >
> > Yes, the same problems as suspend-to-RAM. I'm not sure how many machines
> > are using it at the moment. I'd love to try it on my laptop; that would
> > be one more, and I'd also try to get STR working on my HT desktop
> > machine (Radeon video) if I had the chance. Oh yeah... and I'm going to
> > have another go at merging. Get the idea I've got a lot I want to do? :>
>
> Actually, getting STR work on SMP/HT machine is going to be quite a
> lot of work -- because you need to boot secondary CPUs without
> touching contents of RAM. I hoped CPU hotplug people or Intel ACPI
> people were going to solve it for me, but unfortunately that did not
> happen :-(.

Zwane is working on CPU hotplug. I'm assuming I'll be able to rely on
his work. He said the other day he was up to testing on x86-64. Are you
meaning you just haven't seen the code in action, or that you've found
some reason that hotunplugging won't work?

Regards,

Nigel
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