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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:17:42 -0500 From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com> To: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Reloc Kernel List <fastboot@...ts.osdl.org>, ebiederm@...ssion.com, akpm@...l.org, ak@...e.de, hpa@...or.com, magnus.damm@...il.com, lwang@...hat.com, dzickus@...hat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 10/16] x86_64: 64bit PIC ACPI wakeup On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 04:30:03PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > - Killed lots of dead code > > - Improve the cpu sanity checks to verify long mode > > is enabled when we wake up. > > - Removed the need for modifying any existing kernel page table. > > - Moved wakeup_level4_pgt into the wakeup routine so we can > > run the kernel above 4G. > > - Increased the size of the wakeup routine to 8K. > > - Renamed the variables to use the 64bit register names. > > - Lots of misc cleanups to match trampoline.S > > > > I don't have a configuration I can test this but it compiles cleanly > > Ugh, now that's a big patch.. and untested, too :-(. > > Why is PGE no longer required, for example? > > Can we get it piece-by-piece? > > > Vivek has tested this patch for suspend to memory and it works fine. > > Ok, so it was tested on one config. Given that the patch deals with > detecting CPU oddities... :-( Hi Pavel, This code has been lying in RHEL kernels for close to 3 months now. Have not heard of suspend/resume complaints. So hoping it got tested on wide variety of hardware too apart from testing on my machine. Thanks Vivek - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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