Re: ACPI S1 state

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:13:13PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:43:36AM -0500, David Young wrote:
> > This patch helps my ancient HP Pavilion N3270 enter/leave S1 state.
> > (The N3270 does not have an S3 state.)  I can put the system to sleep
> > with 'sysctl -w machdep.sleep_state=1', and I can wake it by tapping
> > the power button.
> 
> The first part assumes that interrupts where not already disabled. I
> don't think we should make that assumption. So if we want to go this
> way, disable interrupt should actually return the current state.

My x86 assembly is rusty, but let me see what I can do.

> > If I do not put the devices to sleep, then the system hangs instead
> > of waking up.  It seems to have something to do with interrupts from
> > PCI devices.
> 
> Can you try what happens if you mask all ioapic/pic pins before entering
> S1?

I will try that if it is easy, just for curiosity's sake. :-) Is there
any single routine that I can call to do that?

Dave

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