Re: s4bios: does anyone use it?

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> >Is there single user of s4bios? It used to work for me 4 notebooks
> >ago, but I never really used it. I think I'm the only person that ever
> >seen it working, but I could be wrong. Is there anyone using s4bios in
> >2.6.11?
> >
> >If not, I guess we should remove that code from kernel. It is not
> >usefull, and it is likely broken.
> >								Pavel

> I always suspend my Compaq Evo N6OOc to disk using "echo 4b > 
> /proc/acpi/sleep".
> I don't remember the reason why I originally did choose this one instead of 
> S4.
> I just checked that S4 and S4Bios work the same on 2.6.11-mm1 (even with my
> PCMCIA wireless card connected, great!).
> From what I remember, I didn't see any difference between S4 and S4Bios in
> recent vanilla kernels.

Can you try cat /proc/acpi/sleep? If there's no difference between S4
and S4bios, than you are probably just using plain S4...

> By the way, it seems that Radeon makes suspend slower because it needs
> to be blanked or something like that. Is there any way to avoid this ?

Yes, but it will take quite long to do it properly. pm_message_t
framework needs to go in, first.

								Pavel
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