From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:10:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from oss.sgi.com ([192.48.170.157]:27332 "EHLO oss.sgi.com") by lappi.linux-mips.net with ESMTP id S527422AbYC0XJQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:09:16 +0100 Received: from dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m2RN8aGD025582 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:08:37 -0700 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2RMWlBQ027298; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:32:47 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m2RMWlaE027297; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:32:47 GMT Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:32:47 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Sergei Shtylyov Cc: Nico Coesel , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: FW: Alchemy power managment code. Message-ID: <20080327223247.GB26997@linux-mips.org> References: <19CA9E279FDA5246B7D7A1C91A4AF7F40EF804@dealogicserver.DEALogic.nl> <47EA7A7B.8020602@ru.mvista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47EA7A7B.8020602@ru.mvista.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/6021/Wed Feb 27 15:55:48 2008 on oss.sgi.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 18685 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 07:31:55PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: >> Funny you ask because I tried this yesterday on a AU1100 system with the >> 2.6.24 kernel (from kernel.org). I'm afraid I must say the kernel >> crashes when I enable power management. The reason I want to use power >> management is because I need to send the CPU to sleep when the system >> shuts down. I hacked power.c and reset.c a bit so au_sleep() is called >> when the system is shut down. Perhaps someone can confirm the >> powermanagement can be made to work with some fixes (it didn't work with >> 2.6.21-rc4 either). > > BTW, for anybody interested in Alchemy PM code, here's the interesting > link: [ftp|http]://ftp.enneenne.com/pub/misc/au1100-patches/linux/. > It contains a lot of unmerged PM patches by Rodolfo Giometti (and not > only that) from around 2.6.17 time. Anybody interested in reviewing these patches and polishing them to be applied to a recent kernel? Ralf