In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mitsuru IWASAKI writes:
>: Maybe I'm wrong because of lack of my understanding on crush dump and
>: loader. Please help us :-)
>
>I think that you might be able to do this. The real tricky part maybe
>saving hardware RAM that the drivers expect to be there when you
>wakeup. I thinking of video ram and the X server's font cache, to
>name one example.
Drivers will need a "your hardware may have been zonked" entrypoint,
think about the i8254 counter or all the weird versions of write
only or "write here - read there" I/O registers in existence.
Obviously the video driver will need to send a signal or clue to the
Xserver saying "you own the device, you'd better do something"
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