Re: Software suspend support in Fedora.

Pavel Machek
2005-08-15T12:34:17Z

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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

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