Re: [patch] PM: suspend/resume debugging should depend on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND

Mike Galbraith
2006-11-19T19:51:53Z

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 19:58 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:52, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 09:33 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When doing 'make oldconfig' we should ask about suspend/resume
> > > > debug features when SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is not enabled.
> > >
> > > That's wrong.
> > >
> > > I never use SOFTWARE_SUSPEND, and I think the whole concept is totally
> > > broken.
> > >
> > > Sane people use suspend-to-ram, and that's when you need the suspend and
> > > resume debugging.
> >
> > Here I am wishing I had the _opportunity_ to be sane. With my ATI X850
> > AGP card, I have no choices except swsusp or reboot.
>
> Have you tried s2ram (http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram)?

Cool. That shows potential. On an 2.6.19-rc6-rt4 kernel, it looked
like it _might_ have eventually gotten past boot. At one line of kernel
output every ~10 seconds though, I gave up. Virgin 2.6.19-rc6 went
panic with a black screen... have options, will tinker.

(i _was_ quite content with swsusp, but now i want it all;)

Thanks,

-Mike