Re: [RFC PATCH v4] ARM hibernation/suspend-to-disk support

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On 6/9/2011 10:14 PM, Frank Hofmann wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>
>> On 6/9/2011 9:10 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 04:30:08PM +0100, Frank Hofmann wrote:
>>>> Btw, when testing this I found that generic cpu_suspend seems to be
>>>> just
>>>> fine for OMAP3; the OMAP platforms though do not at this time use the
>>>> generic cpu_suspend/resume for sleep, is it planned to change that ?
>>>
>>> That's because OMAP was doing changes to their sleep code while I was
>>> consolidating the sleep code, and although I asked several times that
>>> the OMAP folk should participate in this effort, but evidentally I was
>>> unsuccessful in achieving anything in that direction.
>>>
>> Agreed but the situation at that point was the code was not at
>> all in convertible position. Looking at your below comment,
>> it's still not :)
>>
>>> And of course since then it's been forgotten about, and I've given up
>>> on that particular aspect. I've also come to the conclusion that OMAP
>>> is sufficiently weird (requiring soo much to execute from SRAM) that
>>> its hopeless to persue.
>>>
>> We did discuss this Russell and requested your help here. I guess
>> you have already looked at OMAP code from generic suspend
>> hooks point of view and the SRAM execution, Errata's seems to
>> make you feel it's not going to work.
>> Is that what you mean here ?
>>
>> Regards
>> Santosh
>>
>
> Sorry for interjecting ... you're right there's a lot special about
> OMAP. What I've been talking about is a rather small(ish) bit. Maybe the
> diff illustrates what I mean - use cpu_suspend/resume for the parts of
> off-mode save/restore that are non-OMAP-specific.
>
> Like this (not tested, just for illustration what I mean):
>
Mostly it won't work.
Just replied to your questions. I think you can get the
answer on why this change won't work in it's current form.

Regards
Santosh
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