Re: current ACPI status in 2.6.7 kernel

Alexander Sirotkin
2004-08-11T07:48:58Z

Nathan Bryant wrote:

> Nathan Bryant wrote:
>
>> Alexander Sirotkin wrote:
>>
>>>>> I could not find this information in neither mailing list archive
>>>>> nor the web site.
>>>>> What is the current status of ACPI ? I'm mainly interested in one
>>>>> simple question -
>>>>> does suspend work ? If so, how stable it is.
>>>>
>>
>>
>> Don't try it if you use any SCSI disks. IDE should be OK.
>
>
> Oh, and add many SATA adapters to that list. I think SATA is based on
> the SCSI midlayer.

Thanks for the tip, fortunately I don't have any SCSI or SATA disks.
Unfortunately, I still don't
know how to do this. Is there an utility to put PC into sleep/suspend ?
I know I can switch
to various S modes using /proc entry, but what about all the peripherals
and user mode apps ?
I would venture that there has to be some kind of subsystem in user mode
to take care of
all this. I probably did not phrase my question right, but when I Asked
if ACPI suspend/sleep
status is stable enough I was actually referring to the whole subsystem,
not just kernel
support.

Thanks a lot.

--
Alexander Sirotkin
SW Engineer

Texas Instruments
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