From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 19 16: 3:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E15537B5B0; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA36304; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:03:12 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA63461; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:01:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006192301.RAA63461@harmony.village.org> To: "Andrew Reilly" Subject: Re: ACPI project progress report Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Mitsuru IWASAKI , bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE, acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:55:31 +1000." <20000620085531.A38839@gurney.reilly.home> References: <20000620085531.A38839@gurney.reilly.home> <200006191630.KAA60652@harmony.village.org> <45525.961432574@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:01:46 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000620085531.A38839@gurney.reilly.home> "Andrew Reilly" writes: : That sounds way too hard. Why not restrict suspend activity to : user-level processes and bring the kernel/drivers back up through : a regular boot process? At least that way the hardware and drivers : will know what they are all up to, even if some of it has changed : in the mean time. Takes too long... That's shutdown, not S4. : > Obviously the video driver will need to send a signal or clue to the : > Xserver saying "you own the device, you'd better do something" : : Yeah. The X server has far too much "driver" level code in it : already, so probably needs to be tweaked to re-initialise itself : properly. Yes. Likely. But if we're going to support sleep modes, we'll need to do this. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message