Re: resume changes, please test

From: Eric Anderson <anderson_at_centtech.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:05:56 -0500
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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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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