tibook'02+YDL2.3+pmud+snooze=crash

Stefan Bruda yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Nov 17 18:13:01 2002


At 16:18 -0800 on 2002-11-17 A R wrote:
 >
 > Does anyone have pmud working on the 2002 Tibooks?

Is not pmud which is not working on 2002 tibooks, but sleep in
general, and this is a well-known (and rather old) issue.  The culprit
is the video card (Radeon M7 aka 7500 Mobility).  Ben Herrenschmidt
said it best:

At 10:43 +0200 on 2002-8-7 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
 >
 > Sleep isn't supported on this machine yet because we don't have the
 > necessary informations to implement support for it in radeonfb for
 > the M7 mobility chip.
 > 
 > If ATI ever manage to schedule some time to send us those infos
 > then we'll have sleep working fully on this model. In the meantime,
 > you'll unfortunately have to stick without sleep, or maybe hope
 > somebody will disassemble enough of the MacOS driver to figure out
 > what has to be done. The sleep code for the M6 definitely doesn't
 > work on the M7.

To my knowledge, nothing happened since.

Stefan

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