Re: iBook G3 owners

[klein <klein@crmcn.univ-mrs.fr>]

Hi,
I've applied your patches to a 2.6.12-rc2 tree, and all works fine with 
my ibook 2.2.
sleep / wakeup (to ram) works smoothly, no problems with hotplugging...
cpufreq works also correctly
I will check power savings today

hubert

Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit :
> Hi !
>
> There have been various reports of issues with sleep among others on
> iBook G3 equiped with the 750FX processor. Also, the cpufreq code on
> these so far didn't change the CPU voltage, which limited the actual
> power saving at low frequency.
>
> I have uploaded various patches that should help fix these issues. Those
> patches are all against current linus bk and they should be all applied
> in the order below.
>
> I would really appreciate some tests as I don't have access to any of
> these machines. I need to know if cpufreq works reliably with those
> patches and if the new voltage control makes any differnece on battery
> life (check power consumption in /proc/pmu/battery_*/current when
> running on battery) and I need to know if the patches are improving
> reliability of sleep/wakeup.
>
> The 4 patches can be found at these URLs. If you had earlier versions of
> some of these, those patches replace them:
>
> http://gate.crahsing.org/~benh/ppc32-750-errata-fix.diff
> http://gate.crahsing.org/~benh/ppc32-pmac-sleep-fix.diff
> http://gate.crahsing.org/~benh/cpufreq-add-suspend.diff
> http://gate.crahsing.org/~benh/ppc32-cpufreq-gpio-off.diff
>
> Please, let me know asap,
>
> Ben.


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