Re: Totally broken PCI PM calls

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 03:58:22 EST


Hi!

> The machines I've tested with relatively generic 2.6.9-rc kernels
> don't use BIOS support for S4 when I call swsusp.
>
> Of course the ACPI spec muddies the water by talking about two
> different states called "S4": "S4 Sleeping", which is what I was
> talking about as G1/S4; and "S4 Non-Volatile Sleep" that's more
> what I've seen with swusp: more like a G2 or G3 poweroff.
>
> I'm willing to believe that there are systems on which swsusp
> tells drivers a less confusing story ... but I don't seem to have
> tested with those!

If you are entering S4 or S5 at the end of swsusp basically should not
matter to anyone. What we tell the drivers is same in both cases.

Pavel
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