Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2022 06:15:19 UTC
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, 11:03 PM Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann@gmail.com> wrote:

> Implementing S3 suspend/resume was a sponsored project itself.
> However, it still does only work when at xorg graphics mode, which
> already was topic in this thread.
> When using it from console, no matter sc or vt, it still hangs with
> dark screen and unresponsive keyboard.
> Could finishing the suspend/resume work be sponsored, so that it also
> works on console-only computers?
>

Not without loading the xorg graphics stuff... graphics chips from the last
15 or 20 years have lots of chip specific state that only the graphics
stuff knows about... IIRC, it only knows about it because it put the
graphics into a known state... it's the main reason laptops stopped
suspending in the early 2000s... it looks to be a lot of work for a
relatively rare use case...

Warner


> On 12/30/21, Joseph Mingrone <jrm@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2021-12-30 at 14:15, Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2021-12-30 at 08:05, Özkan KIRIK <ozkan.kirik@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I've ideas about enhancing the routing architecture. Is it possible to
> >>> add to wiki?
> >
> >> Certainly.  Please do.
> >
> > The link again is https://wiki.freebsd.org/2021FoundationCFI
> >
>
>