[Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev and power management

[James S. <jsi...@in...>]

> I'm trying to get the radeon M6 in my new Fujitsu Lifebook to handle
> ACPI S3 suspend and resume properly - at the moment, on resume it
> fails to do anything. Looking at the driver, the reason is quite
> obvious (no .suspend and .resume functions defined), but the driver
> file has code to handle these (apparently only for the PowerBooks,
> since it's wrapped in a #ifdef CONIG_PMAC_PBOOK). My Lifebook P2120
> is a Crusoe 5800 based setup, with a PCI M6, so it's not even being
> built, let alone enabled and used. 
> 
> As far as I can tell, if I removed the #ifdef CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK and
> split the current radeon_set_suspend up into suspend and resume
> functions to fit the current power management stuff, it might have
> some chance of working. Can you tell me if this is a reasonable
> first step?
> 
> Alternatively, if you have patches that I could test, I'd be quite
> happy to give them a go - being a guinea pig sounds like fun ;-)

No patches at this time. I need to learn the new power management code. 
Where are the docs for them ?