From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Software suspend support in Fedora. Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:34:17 +0200 Message-ID: <20050815123417.GA4003@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050731222751.GA28907@redhat.com> <20050803092301.GA1352@elf.ucw.cz> <20050813051642.GB11456@redhat.com> <20050815122000.GB15382@elf.ucw.cz> <20050815122927.GA15481@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============25122724721527767==" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050815122927.GA15481@devserv.devel.redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-pm@lists.osdl.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org --===============25122724721527767== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi! > > Suspend should work okay on PATA [what areas do you think it is > > incomplete in?]. Recently, it was made to work on SATA, too > > ACPI requires that the ACPI taskfiles are sent to the drivers. That isn't > done. We then don't restore all the drive state correctly so parts of your > disk can just "vanish". We have had done normal boot, so drive should be in sane state. With echo "shutdown" > /sys/power/disk, ACPI is not even involved (it thinks it is regular powerdown). With echo "platform" > ..., yes, we tell ACPI, and that means that we should follow the specs. Maybe you want to make "shutdown" the default, then... Do you agree that suspend/resume PATA support is okay on system without ACPI enabled? Pavel -- if you have sharp zaurus hardware you don't need... you know my address --===============25122724721527767== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --===============25122724721527767==--