Re: help PowerBook G4 sleep works.
> Oh, But suspend to disk is slower than ppc sleep function,
> If we can found the way do nVidia chip wakeup is better.
Sure it would...
> I has try to port suspend ppc,but not completed, I not family with powerpc
> assemble, So it's hard to do it.
It's on my todolist, shouldn't be that hard actually. Most of the CPU
context save/resume code is already there in the current sleep code,
except that we should exit from it for suspend-to-disk
> I has tested you 2.6.1-rc1-ben1 tree, but the rivafb still can't work in my
> laptop, how can i help you?
I'll get a more up to date version merged in soon, let me know if it
works at that point.
> > > I have a PowerBook G4 with linux 2.6.0 + fake sleep patch, Now most
> > > hardware after sleep can wakeup expect video card, attched file is
> > > the wakeuped dmesg.log.
> >
> > Which model of PowerBook G4 ?
> [hugang@:asm]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> cpu : 7455, altivec supported
> clock : 533MHz
> revision : 3.3 (pvr 8001 0303)
> bogomips : 530.54
> machine : PowerBook6,1
> motherboard : PowerBook6,1 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
> detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 12")
> pmac flags : 0000000b
> L2 cache : 256K unified
> memory : 256MB
> pmac-generation : NewWorld
>
> >
> > > By the way, Do you know the airpot status in linux?
> >
> > Airpot ? No ... Airport eventually :) Old airport is fully supported,
> > Airport Exteme isn't and will probably never be as it's a Broadcom chipset
> > and those guys basically aren't interested in seeing a linux driver for
> > their chipset.
> bad news. I heard other guys do Broadcom 4301 for linux with
> reverse-engineering. The Airport Extme is 4306? If the project has
> complete, the 4306 support in apple will be easy? is right?
Probably... You could help them :) The Apple driver has the
symbols in the code, so disassembling it is possible :)
Ben.
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