> What if the interrupt controller or timers or whatever aren't strictly a > "parent" of the devices that need it? THAT'S OK. Sure and we have sysdev's for these low level things, those _do_ get suspended with IRQ off. I hate sysdev's for many reasons but not that one :) > (It's also more than OK - it's a fact of life on some things. It should be > ok to shut off the interrupt controller before you shut off some devices, > and it should be ok to bring core devices up before the interrupt > controller is even working). > > So all of this means that I don't think the system should be "live" during > the last phase. It should be as dead as humanly possible. Yeah, I see your point, and it does make sense, but I still need to find a solution for the problem of the console semaphore :) I might have to keep fbdev's in the first phase for now. Ben.
