Suspend on SMP: Progress?

Nate Lawson nate at root.org
Fri Apr 27 20:57:42 UTC 2007


Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> This is a partial repost of a question I sent to
> freebsd-mobile; sorry to show upon on this technical
> list with a newbie question.
> 
> Basically, has there been any progress on suspend/resume on
> SMP laptops? I have a Lenovo T60 (Intel Core 2 Duo) running
> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. Pretty much everything is fine except
> suspend/resume, which doesn't work at all. Sending an
> "acpiconf -s 3" causes a hard lockup for which pulling the
> battery seems to be the only solution.
> 
> I see the discussion from back in October, but I can't tell if
> anything has been done since. I'd be more than happy to track
> 7.0 if it would help; if there are any kludges that would
> enable me to suspend the machine, I'll do them. Right now I'm
> stuck with what is in effect a portable desktop--the need to
> power down and reboot every time I move it makes it pretty
> useless for actual travel. My fault for not looking into this
> enough before buying it; for some reason I had the idea that
> it would work, as my X23 and T43 suspend with no problem and
> it didn't occur to me that the SMP in the new machine would 
> mess things up.
> 
> Thanks for any advice.

No work has been done for this.  Basically the APs need to be stopped
during suspend and restarted during resume.

-- 
Nate


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