Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] (testers ?) Fix sleep on some powerbooks

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@debian.org>]

Hi Ben


On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:15:18PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi Ben, Gaudenz - Hi All
> 
> On Mon, Mar 03 2008, at 17:27 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > The PMU backlight code would kick in during sleep/resume even on
> > machines that use a different backlight method. This appears to
> > break sleep on my PowerBook, though I can't test that patch at
> > the moment as the machine died while I was bisecting.
> > 
> > So if anybody around has one of those latest revision PowerPC
> > PowerBooks, the one just before they went to Intel, 
> 
> yes, I think so:
> 
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> processor       : 0
> cpu             : 7447A, altivec supported
> clock           : 1666.666000MHz
> revision        : 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105)
> bogomips        : 33.15
> timebase        : 8320000
> platform        : PowerMac
> machine         : PowerBook5,8
> motherboard     : PowerBook5,8 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh 
> detected as     : 287 (PowerBook G4 15")
> pmac flags      : 00000019
> L2 cache        : 512K unified
> pmac-generation : NewWorld
> 
> 
> > and have a
> > problem with suspend/resume, please test this and let me know
> > if it helps.
> 
> It helps. Thanks a lot .. :) ... 

For me it fixes the problem too. I have the same machine.

Gaudenz
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