[Pm-utils] pm-utls version

[Michael Biebl]

2008/2/12, Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:10:55AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 2008/2/11, Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>:
> > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:03:41PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > > 2008/2/11, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> > > > > Okay, I would like to make a release some time soon. The version number
> > > > > of pm-utils is currently 0.99.4
> > > > >
> > > > > I feel we've done so much work, and changed the internals enough to
> > > > > declare a 1.1.0 release - i.e. still unstable, but > 1.0.0.
> > > > >
> > > > > Comments?
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to work on the uswsusp support and fix some outstanding
> > > > issues with PMU support.
> > >
> > > Well, adding basic uswsusp support should be dead simple now -- I
> > > whacked up a 30 line file that is completly untested (due to not using
> > > uswsusp on my primary machine).
> >
> > It's not quite that simple.
> >
> > E.g., when s2ram is used, you shouldn't run 20video/99video.
> > s2ram does the video posting etc itself. For that it needs to be
> > passed the correct command line arguments. The correct command line
> > arguments have to be calculated from the --quirk-* options passed to
> > pm-*.
>
> Ah, my brief perusal of the source seemed to indicate that the -f
> parameter (among other things) bypassed the whitelist entirely, including
> the application of any quirks.
>
> In either case, though, we don't need to use s2ram at all in uswsusp --
> the only thing it buys us is the whitelist, and we should be getting
> that for free from HAL.

s2ram is more than just a whitelist. It's an advanced version of
vbetools. It also incorporates the functionality of pm-pmu and
radeontool in one single binary (it replaces them so to speak)
If you want to use more advanced stuff like s2both (hybrid-suspend
support), you need the s2ram functionality anyway.

I CCed Stefan. He can give probably give us more details on this and
probably tell us how he would like to see uswsusp
(s2ram/s2disk/s2both) integrated into pm-utils.

Cheers,
Michael


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