[LinuxBIOS] Fast path resume, high-level design

Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org
Fri May 4 06:33:28 CEST 2007


On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:32:35PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Mark Foster described (at the Power management summit a year ago) a
> more general scheme for paralleling initialization using tables and
> data structures.

Great summary and links at http://lwn.net/Articles/181888/

Mark's init lists look very good.


> Something like that might be adaptable enough for more complex
> systems: but that isn't what's been implemented here; we haven't
> needed to do so.

More than ever before it is now obvious to me that nothing at all
regarding power management should be done in the BIOS.

The plan is to replace ACPI with the device tree, right?
How is that going?


//Peter




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