resume changes, please test
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Sun Jun 11 20:05:50 UTC 2006
Nate Lawson wrote:
> Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
>> Nate Lawson wrote:
>>> I've committed some overall minor changes to the resume assembly code
>>> as a result of a code review. Please test to be sure nothing was
>>> broken, and perhaps something got improved along the way.
>>>
>>> Now there is also a tunable/sysctl "debug.acpi.resume_beep". Setting
>>> it to 1 will beep the pc speaker very early in resume so we can
>>> figure out if hangs on resume are a driver or acpi problem.
>>
>> Hi Nate,
>>
>> what about those pour souls that can't even suspend? Is there any update
>> on the Dell-Laptops-reboot-on-split-writes-to-register-PMA1_Control? [1]
>>
>> Perhaps adding some beeps into the suspend path could move more people
>> into actually testing this. I think most people are afraid adding such
>> things themselves.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2004-December/000981.html
>
> Yes, I'm aware of that and am getting to it. I'm just starting with the
> parts at the core and moving outward.
>
> Centaur Technologies was kind enough to send me a D600 so I can
> reproduce the problem now.
That line should really read:
"Nate was kind enough to work on ACPI, that we decided to send him some
hardware."
Thanks again Nate for working on ACPI for all of us!
Eric
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