Aaron
<asethman@mandate-inc.com>
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Gabor Kuti wrote:
> > I think the point is sometimes the IDE driver can't properly recover
> > in this situation. There are really two ways to properly fix suspend:
> >
> > 1. Device drivers can be "bullet proofed" to the point that they can
> > recover automatically from a complete loss of device state.
> >
> > 2. Drivers can be made APM-aware, so that they directly handle APM
> > suspend and resume notifications.
> >
> > I think both are desirable. Strange things happen and drivers should
> > be fault tolerant. This doesn't have to be horribly expensive... it
> > might just mean sanity checking status values in a few key places, and
> > having the ability to do a from-scratch initialization of a device if
> > all else fails. And even if drivers can blindly recover from a
> > suspend, eventually we won't be satisfied with spewing messages about
> > unresponsive devices whenever a system is resumed, and we'll want to
> > distinguish this situation from a genuine hardware problem.
> I'm working on a Software Suspend right now.
> Today I've had my first _real_ success when the saved state came back and
> worked without oops :)
> Still I have left fairly quantity of work but today it showed me that it
> is all possible [I started to lose my faith]
>
> I will need to make a register_suspend function which calls the registered
> drivers/etc by resuming so they can restore state [they are registered by
> boot]. I think this could be useful for APM suspend too. I did not get
> into it too deeply yet tough. [I'm happy that reloading works].
> [My program creates a filename called /suspend.img and saves there what
> could not be swapped out, so I don't waste a byte]. In case of any
> interest prototype should be here soon [I have other works to do :((]
>
> Ps: right now is is called CONFIG_MACHINE_SUSPEND. Should I rename it
> CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND in order not to confuse with laptop's hw suspend?
>
>
> Seasons
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