Re: swsusp in 2.6.16: works fine w/o PSE on a VIA C3?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu May 25 2006 - 18:07:32 EST


On Ät 25-05-06 02:10:55, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> I was just feeling lucky and tried suspend-to-disk cycle
> on my VIA C3 machine, which lacks PSE which is marked as
> being required for swsusp to work. After commenting out
> the PSE check in include/asm-i386/suspend.h and rebooting,
> I tried the whole cycle, several times, with real load
> (while running 3 kernel compile in parallel) and while
> IDLE... And surprizingly, it all worked flawlessly for
> me, without a single glitch...
>
> So the question is: is PSE really needed nowadays?

I think so. If page directories are in "right" order in memory, it is
possible it works without PSE...
Pavel
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