On 5 May 2014 08:09, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 4:27:38 am Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to propose flipping a few things: >> >> * Flipping the default lid state to S3. I think ACPI suspend/resume >> seems to work well enough these days and I've not met anyone lately >> who expects the default from their laptop to be "stay awake with the >> lid shut." >> * Save chip bugs that we should add workarounds for, we should be OK >> to enter lower sleep states when idling. Flipping this may expose some >> further crazy driver, platform or timer bugs, but they again likely >> should be fixed. >> >> what do people think? > > I think the lid switch thing is premature. Even on my X220 I use a devd > hook to enable it only when i915drm is loaded as resume doesn't work until > that is done. > > I think the Cmax thing OTOH is probably more appropriate. We have several > things place that should "mostly" DTRT for picking the correct timers to > use. The one case I know of recently were some somewhat older systems where > the HPET wasn't reliable, but the system chose to use HPET instead of LAPIC > becuase the LAPIC was known to stop during C1E, etc. In this case the user > just stuck with plain old C1 and forced the LAPIC timer which worked fine. > However, it is hard to identify those cases. On modern systems I would > expect the LAPIC to work just fine, so this problem will become less and > less important as time goes on.
right. I'd rather we start finding more of these sooner rather than later. :-) -a _______________________________________________ freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-acpi-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"