On Sun 2007-09-02 00:21:37, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
>
> The following scenario leads to total confusion of the platform firmware on
> some boxes (eg. HPC nx6325):
> * Hibernate with ACPI enabled
> * Pass "acpi=off" to the boot kernel
>
> To prevent this from happening it's necessary to check if ACPI is enabled (and
> enable it if that's not the case) _right_ _after_ control has been transfered
> from the boot kernel to the image kernel, before device_power_up() is called
> (ie. with interrupts disabled). Enabling ACPI after calling device_power_up()
> turns out to be insufficient.
>
> For this reason, introduce new hibernation callback ->leave() that will be
> executed before device_power_up() by the restored image kernel. To make it
> work, it also is necessary to move swsusp_suspend() from swsusp.c to disk.c
> (it's name is changed to "create_image", which is more up to the point).
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
ACK.
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