cvs commit: src/sys/dev/bge if_bge.c

Nate Lawson nate at root.org
Thu Sep 29 12:44:31 PDT 2005


John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 29 September 2005 01:49 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>John Baldwin wrote:
>>
>>>On Wednesday 28 September 2005 04:36 pm, Nate Lawson wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've heard disabling apic helps T42s, otherwise they get a hard hang.
>>>>It's difficult to print the driver progress while suspending because the
>>>>function call stack is recursive, not iterative.  For example,
>>>>root_suspend -> pci_suspend -> fxp_suspend -> mii_suspend (if that
>>>>exists).  You'd have to add a printf in every driver and bus.  A better
>>>>way might be to add printf or KTR to bus_generic_suspend() to print the
>>>>device name before calling its method.
>>>>
>>>>BTW, I'm working on committing a patch that adds KTR to acpi so we can
>>>>track down issues like this although the device suspending stuff should
>>>>be done separately as listed above.
>>>
>>>BTW, the issue with APIC on some systems is that when we use the APIC,
>>>the current code doesn't end up doing suspend/resume for the ATPIC and so
>>>it ends up in some random state.
>>
>>Ah, is a fix for that upcoming?  :)
> 
> 
> It's in my head.  I think I need to rework the suspend/resume support in the 
> x86 interrupt code to instead of doing all the interrupt sources, having the 
> atpic and apic code register pic devices in a separate list that gets 
> iterated on suspend and resume.

I think that makes sense since they have different programming methods. 
  Does it make sense to separate them into different newbus devices as 
well, so you get proper ordering?

-- 
Nate


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