[Pm-utils] Resume via quirks, not using the DBUS method, Was: Release Candidates ?

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:59:53 +0000
Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 00:59 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> >  1. Need a pm-utils release and the associated glue for HAL. Richard,
> >     can you drive this one (I can throw staplers at Peter if needed)?
> >     Thanks! This is a release blocker.
> 
> Attached patches (to pm-utils and HAL) propagate the quirk information
> onto the tools via the command line.
> 


Any reason you didn't change the --quirk-* named as stefan and I would like
for s2ram compatibility?

Tim wrote:
> Can we have them a bit differently? Like
> 
>     --quirk-vbe_save:   save VBE state before suspending and restore after resume.    
>     --quirk-vbe_post:   VBE POST the graphics card after resume
>     --quirk-vbe_mode:   get VBE mode before suspend and set it after resume
> 
> And maybe we can also support these in hal?
> 
>     --quirk-pci_save:   save the PCI config space for the VGA card.
>     --quirk_radeontool: turn off the backlight on radeons before suspending.
> 
> That way they equal the command-line options of s2ram (except for the
> --quirk of course)
> 
> Finally, maybe we can add s3_mode and s3_bios (bios=1, mode=2, both=1+2), that
> is the way the go into /proc/sys/kernel/acpi_video_flags. That can also
> be done in pm-tools. 

stefan wrote :

> Ok for me. I also like Tim's suggestion of different names (i'd probably
> drop the "--quirk"-prefix and just call them "--s3_bios", "--s3_mode" etc),
> but i do not really care about that since we can always fix that in pm-utils.
> Short options would be nice ;-)

If you want, I can patch your patch;)

grts TIm