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Re: Sleep & 2.6.10



On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 16:01 -0800, ms419@freezone.co.uk wrote:
> I happily ran 2.6.9 & Ben's albook-ibookg4-sleep-7 patch on my 
> PowerBook5,2, 287 (PowerBook G4 15") for a couple months.
> 
> It works great - thanks Ben!
> 
> Only problem was bluetooth after sleep - resume, but 1) I haven't 
> played with bluetooth much & 2) I gather it's a general problem with 
> USB (internal bluetooth uses USB driver) - 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc/25297
> 
> I'm now running 2.6.10 & I gather Ben's patch isn't yet available for 
> this version - 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc/25360

No, but 2.6.11 (which will be final soon) will have the whole thing.

> I also gather that suspend-to-disk is available - 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc/25379

I don't think suspend to disk is very reliable tho ...

> However, according to "Documentation/power/swsusp.txt", I must "append 
> resume=/dev/your_swap_partition to kernel command
> line" - but my swap partition is on an LVM2 logical volume 
> (/dev/mapper/ruk-bip) - so I suspect this won't work.
> 
> Any suggestions for suspending, given this configuration? Must I wait 
> patiently for sleep support with 2.6.10?
> 
> Has Ben's patch been integrated into any kernel repositories or 
> packages? Speaking for myself, the patch is currently far better than 
> no sleep support at all - is it on its way into mainstream? : )
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Jack
-- 
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>



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