Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:27:13 +1000 | From | "Nigel Cunningham" <> | Subject | Re: Bug#234976: kernel-source-2.6.4: Software Suspend doesn't work |
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Hi.
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:40:15 +1000, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 07:48:34PM +1000, herbert wrote: >> >> A simple solution is to copy the pages in reverse. This way the >> top page table is filled in last which should resolve this particular >> issue. The following patch does exactly that and fixes the problem >> for me. > > Of course this doesn't work for machines without PSE. But then the > original code didn't work either. Since resuming from 486's isn't > that cool anyway, IMHO someone should just add a PSE check in the > swsusp/pmdisk init code on i386.
There used to be such a check. Centrinos, however, if I recall correctly, don't have PSE but can suspend with our current method. Perhaps we can come up with a more nuanced test? Better still, though, we should just get proper AGP support for suspending and resuming in.
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