Re: My current suspend bigdiff

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 05:52:25 EST


Hi!

> >This is how my current "bigdiff" looks... [This is not for
> >application, but if you want to make S3 working, it might help you].
>
> I have some issues about entering S3. From device driver point of view,
> Could you please explain the main difference between entering S1 and
>S3.

For S1, suspending/resuming drivers is not neccessary according to the
spec. But we do it anyway. So from device driver point of view, S1 and
S3 should be the same.

If the driver has no suspend support, it will survive S1 (if you don't
have buggy hardware); that is not the case with S3.
Pavel

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