Re: swsuspend: possible with VIA Eden processor? Or alternatives?

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 07:51:00 EST

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:14:04PM +0100, Wolfgang Fritz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the swsuspend mini howto says that a processor with pse/pse36 feature is
> required for swsupend in 2.4.
>
> So I am obviously out of luck with 2.4 kernels, but what about 2.5 (the
> mini-howto is silent here)?

>From include/asm-i386/suspend.h

static inline void
arch_prepare_suspend(void)
{
    if (!cpu_has_pse)
        panic("pse required");
}

There's really no requirement that you *need* PSE to be able to
do suspend, but it seems no-one has stepped forward to write the
necessary code to support non-PSE afaics.

                Dave 

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