Re: S3 test

[Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> Somebody in the list suggested we could test S3 with a kernel which
> doesn't touch any device. Considering there are many broken drivers
> (especially hard disk driver in some systems), this sounds like a good
> method to narrow down S3 bugs. For those who want to try it, you can
> make a kernel without any driver support, and make attached file as your
> initrd, and see if S3 works. The attached initramfs doesn't touch any
> device and just does something like below:
> 
> echo 'mem' >/sys/power/state
> echo xxxxxxxx
> while true; do done

Unfortunately, video is the device least likely to work after resume :-(.
But users can hit numlock or something to see if machine is still alive.


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