On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 01:15 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > I believe it would be nicer to SUSPEND, because apm bios may fail to put > > > devices into powersave... > > > Pavel > > > PS: The mail with list of states was sent before I received this one... > > > > This is tricky... APM will eventually try to use some devices after we > > do our suspend pass, for example, it will try to suspend the video chip > > into "APM" mode (which in most case for ATIs is D2 state). The problem > > is that if the device is already suspended, the BIOS may well crash > > trying to tap it's registers... > > > > I'm not sure what is the proper policy with APM, but then, I have the > > APM maintainer not far from my desk so ... :) > > Ok... that is the detail. Does "event/flags" seem reasonable to you? Yes. Ben.
