[OLPC-devel] Thoughts on S3 resume.

[Ronald G Minnich]

Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [060727 06:39]:
> 
>>I think this S3 resume would be far faster than any resume based on AML 
>>bytecodes. The LinuxBIOS step would be very fast -- almost 100% of 
>>linuxbios would be bypassed. Linux could then very quickly bring the 
>>rest of the system back up.
> 
> 
> dumb question: can linuxbios bypass all of pci init etc in this case?

not dumb at all.

I would probably put the "linuxbios bypass" in the mainboard-specific 
function BEFORE hardwaremain is called. So hardwaremain() would not be 
entered at all.

ron