On Tuesday, 22 May 2007 01:38, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> > > > > At least on some machines it is necessary to prepare the ACPI firmware for the > > restoration of the system memory state from the hibernation image if the > > "platform" mode of hibernation has been used. Namely, in that cases we need to > > disable the GPEs before replacing the "boot" kernel with the "frozen" kernel. > > After the restore they will be re-enabled by hibernation_ops->finish(), but if > > the restore fails, they have to be re-enabled by the restore code explicitly. > > > > For this purpose we can introduce two additional hibernation operations, called > > pre_restore() and restore_cleanup() and call them from the restore code path. > > Still, they should be called if the "platform" mode of hibernation has been > > used, so we need to pass the information about the hibernation mode from the > > "frozen" kernel to the "boot" kernel in the image header. > > I don't quite like this one... passing flags from frozen to boot > kernel makes it more complex. > > Is it really neccessary? I think so. > Could we do the same steps as the first thing when the frozen kernel > wakes up? At that time we do hibernate_ops->finish() which enables the GPEs anyway in the right place. > What machines does it fix? http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7887 Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
