Jürgen Keil wrote:
>> Trying fast reboot on my Dell XPS M1330 equipped with a GeForce 8400M GS 
>> and running OpenSolaris build 100, doesn't work if I am using the latest 
>> 177.80 nvidia driver.
> 
> It's probably a good idea to send this question to the xwindow discuss
> forum...
> 
> Which 177.80 nvidia driver? The one included with OpenSolaris?
> Or the one download from nvidia's website?
It fails with both, the driver included with OpenSolaris and with the 
driver from the nvidia's website. Both are version 177.80 for Solaris

> 
> And how does it fail?
It drops to regular *slow* reboot.

> 
>> It does work if I am using the 173.14.12 nvidia driver.
> 
> I'd say fast reboot can't work with the older driver,
> because it does not implement the quiesce() 
> entry point.  Doesn't "reboot -f dryrun" report failiures
> (missing quiesce() support for the nvidia module) ?
It is not that simple. Drivers that do not implement quiesce() may work 
depending what they do when going down. Drivers that implement quiesce() 
correctly are guaranteed to work. I have 4 drivers in my M1330 that do 
not implement quiesce() and I have to unload only one to be able to fast 
reboot. They are:

agptarget
hdaudio
iwk (quiesce() is implemented on the driver included in builds 102)
sdhost

If I am using the nvidia 177.14.12 it is reported as not having 
quiesce() too.

The only driver I need to unload for fast reboot to work is iwk.

I was told the problem for certain types of GPU in the nvidia driver 
177.80 were fixed for build 101. I am already using this driver. As well 
as the fix for '6767575 uhci_quiesce() should clear status bits' as I 
mentioned in the original email.

The only drawback of using the nvidia driver 173.14.12 during fast 
reboot is that the screen does not drop to text mode, so that I cannot 
see the OS banner and messages when it is coming up. The logs show the 
reboot took 2 sec. So it is fair to say fast reboot worked.

Antonello
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