Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-11 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mitsuru IWASAKI writes: : Hi, here is the latest (and maybe final?) report on our ACPI project's : progress. : : We are ready now to merge our work on ACPI into main source tree! Bravo! Wonderful work! Thanks. I think we need to implement power management

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-11 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Folks, there are a lot of exciting and cool things, like Processor and Device Power State Control, Thermal Management, Replacement PnP system, OS initiated hibernation and many :-) I think now is the time to start open and development, not only in Japan, for FreeBSD ACPI support! This

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-11 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mitsuru IWASAKI writes: : # I haven't checked ACPI spec 2.0 yet though :-) Wouldn't you know it. I printed the 1.0, and then the errata for it. Now I have to kill another couple of trees to print the 2.0 spec. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-11 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
It is related with quite wide areas, not only for power management. # I'm interested in power management part personally for the first step # though. Do I understand correctly that things like monitoring cooling fans etc is also possible? I guess the people running (lots of) servers

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-11 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
I'm not quite sure what it does, but it seems to work fine here on my ASUS CUSL2, at least the shutdown part. Thank you for your report. It would be helpful to check http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/whatis1.htm and it's links. It is related with quite wide areas, not only for power management.

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-11 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:35:27AM +0900, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: I'm not quite sure what it does, but it seems to work fine here on my ASUS CUSL2, at least the shutdown part. Thank you for your report. It would be helpful to check http://www.teleport.com/~acpi/whatis1.htm and it's

ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-09 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, here is the latest (and maybe final?) report on our ACPI project's progress. We are ready now to merge our work on ACPI into main source tree! Our prototype development is going to finish. AML interpreter development is almost completed, region access facility (SystemMemory, SystemIO and

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:30 AM +0900 8/10/00, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: Hi, here is the latest (and maybe final?) report on our ACPI project's progress. We are ready now to merge our work on ACPI into main source tree! [...skipping...] Folks, there are a lot of exciting and cool things, like Processor and Device

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-09 Thread Michael Harnois
I'm not quite sure what it does, but it seems to work fine here on my ASUS CUSL2, at least the shutdown part. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] When the stomach is satisfied, and lust is spent, man spares

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-09 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mitsuru IWASAKI writes: : Hi, here is the latest (and maybe final?) report on our ACPI project's : progress. : : We are ready now to merge our work on ACPI into main source tree! Bravo! Wonderful work! Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-21 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 08:14:41PM +0200, Narvi wrote: You obviously haven't considered the ability to be able to near hot-swap motherboard and cpu - or even RAM - in this way. You're right! I hadn't! (Although I've dreamed about it a few times). Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-21 Thread Narvi
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Narvi writes: : You obviously haven't considered the ability to be able to near hot-swap : motherboard and cpu - or even RAM - in this way. The ACPI spec specifically states that one cannot disassemble a machine in S4

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Mike Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:01:46PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Andrew Reilly" writes: : That sounds way too hard. Why not restrict suspend activity to : user-level processes and bring the kernel/drivers back up through : a regular boot

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:40:30PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: The real issue here is persistent system state across the S4 suspend; ie. leaving applications open, etc. IMO this isn't really something worth a lot of effort to us, and it has a lot of additional complications for a

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Chris Fedde
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:27:08 +0300 Maxim Sobolev wrote: +-- | Mike Smith wrote: | | The real issue here is persistent system state across the S4 suspend; ie. | leaving applications open, etc. IMO this isn't really something worth a | lot of effort to us, and it has a

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Narvi writes: : You obviously haven't considered the ability to be able to near hot-swap : motherboard and cpu - or even RAM - in this way. The ACPI spec specifically states that one cannot disassemble a machine in S4 state and expect the state to be saved on

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : The real issue here is persistent system state across the S4 suspend; ie. : leaving applications open, etc. IMO this isn't really something worth a : lot of effort to us, and it has a lot of additional complications for a : "server-class"

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 12:47:38PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bjoern Fischer writes: : Just a moment. You talk about doing a `Save-to-Disk' (incl. system halt), : turning power off, maybe adding some hardware or moving the machine : to another location, then

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Narvi
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:40:30PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: The real issue here is persistent system state across the S4 suspend; ie. leaving applications open, etc. IMO this isn't really something worth a lot of effort to us, and it has

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bjoern Fischer writes: : Just a moment. You talk about doing a `Save-to-Disk' (incl. system halt), : turning power off, maybe adding some hardware or moving the machine : to another location, then switching on again, restoring the system context, : and the machine

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: : Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: : : - support S2, S3, S4 (hibernation) sleeping transition. S4 sleep : require some hack in boot loader needs help. : : I thought hibernation was entirely controlled by kernel? What do you : need? You

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mitsuru IWASAKI writes: : Hi, here is the latest report on our ACPI project's progress. As I told you on the Train in Tokyo: Cool! Way Cool! ACPI should enable us to properly put the chipsets in laptops to sleep and then wake them up

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: : BTW, have you decided between NetBSD and BSD/OS cardbus code yet? No. There is no BSD/OS cardbus card that I could find in the tree. If I'm being insanely blind, please someone tell me. The short term plan is to get NEWCARD working and

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 01:56:11PM +0900, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: I think OS-initiated S4 (hibernation) in FreeBSD has enough advantages because we can do `Save-to-Disk' anywhere even on non-laptop machines which BIOS doesn't support hibernation. FreeBSD supports crash dump facility here, so

RE: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Koster, K.J.
Just a moment. You talk about doing a `Save-to-Disk' (incl. system halt), turning power off, maybe adding some hardware or moving the machine to another location, then switching on again, restoring the system context, and the machine will proceed as if nothing had happened, do you? I

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, From: Bjoern Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ACPI project progress report Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:01:44 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a moment. You talk about doing a `Save-to-Disk' (incl. system halt), turning power off, maybe adding some hardware or moving

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
imp In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mitsuru IWASAKI writes: imp : Hi, here is the latest report on our ACPI project's progress. imp imp As I told you on the Train in Tokyo: Cool! Way Cool! ACPI should imp enable us to properly put the chipsets in laptops to sleep and then imp wake them up again.

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Mike Smith
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

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Mike Smith
S4 requires the OS to reinitialise peripherals. Some comments I've seen from the Linux folks suggest that we'll have to save and restore the PCI configuration space as well. Basically, resume from S4 is not something that is going to be very easy for us to implement. It'll require

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : Hmm, this has me thinking again about suspend/resume. In the current : context, can we expect a suspend veto from some function to actually : DTRT? (ie. drivers that have been suspended get a resume call). If the BIOS allows us to do that,

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:07:26 -0700, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hmm, this has me thinking again about suspend/resume. In the current context, can we expect a suspend veto from some function to actually DTRT? (ie. drivers that have been suspended get a resume call). That's how I

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Bjoern Fischer wrote: Just a moment. You talk about doing a `Save-to-Disk' (incl. system halt), turning power off, maybe adding some hardware or moving the machine to another location, then switching on again, restoring the system context, and the machine will proceed as if nothing had

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:36:14PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: 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

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Andrew Reilly" writes: : That sounds way too hard. Why not restrict suspend activity to : user-level processes and bring the kernel/drivers back up through : a regular boot process? At least that way the hardware and drivers : will know what they are all up to,

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Andre Oppermann
Andrew Reilly wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:01:46PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Andrew Reilly" writes: : That sounds way too hard. Why not restrict suspend activity to : user-level processes and bring the kernel/drivers back up through : a regular boot

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Warner Losh wrote: 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

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:01:46PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Andrew Reilly" writes: : That sounds way too hard. Why not restrict suspend activity to : user-level processes and bring the kernel/drivers back up through : a regular boot process? At least that way

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: :On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:49:24AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: : : Processes do still wind up in "sleep" state, completely paged : out, don't they? : :Observationaly, no. Unless I actually manage to run my system low on :RAM, none of my swap is used

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Warner Losh
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

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
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

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Mike Smith
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:01:46PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Andrew Reilly" writes: : That sounds way too hard. Why not restrict suspend activity to : user-level processes and bring the kernel/drivers back up through : a regular boot process? At least that

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:16:08AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: (*) Speaking of which: why are we considering doing process dumps into a _different_ swap-ish partition, instead of just ensuring that all processes are sleeping in the normal swap partition? If that was done, then they would

Process migration (was RE: ACPI project progress report)

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew ReillyAtLake
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:40:30PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: The real issue here is persistent system state across the S4 suspend; ie. leaving applications open, etc. IMO this isn't really something worth a lot of effort to us, and it has a lot of additional complications for a

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:30:55PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:16:08AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: (*) Speaking of which: why are we considering doing process dumps into a _different_ swap-ish partition, instead of just ensuring that all processes are sleeping in

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:40:30PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: The real issue here is persistent system state across the S4 suspend; ie. leaving applications open, etc. IMO this isn't really something worth a lot of effort to us, and it has a lot of additional complications for a

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:49:24AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: The issue isn't with the size of the disk storage required, but with the mechanism. Why dedicate 256M to a suspend partition, and invent a new process saving mechanism, instead of making your existing swap partition 256M larger

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-18 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mitsuru IWASAKI writes: : Hi, here is the latest report on our ACPI project's progress. As I told you on the Train in Tokyo: Cool! Way Cool! ACPI should enable us to properly put the chipsets in laptops to sleep and then wake them up again. Right now pccard

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-16 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: - support S2, S3, S4 (hibernation) sleeping transition. S4 sleep require some hack in boot loader needs help. I thought hibernation was entirely controlled by kernel? What do you need? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-16 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: - support S2, S3, S4 (hibernation) sleeping transition. S4 sleep require some hack in boot loader needs help. I thought hibernation was entirely controlled by kernel? What do you

Re: ACPI project progress report - Nov.

1999-12-01 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, Doug Rabson wrote: Please see http://www.jp.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ACPI/util/acpiconf?cvsroot=freebsd-jp This sounds very promising. I will check out the code soon and try to give feedback. Creating the ACPI namespace is a necessary first step before its possible to do full AML

Re: ACPI project progress report - Nov.

1999-11-30 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: 5. AML interpreter implementation We've just started based on Doug Rabson's acpitest program, but parsing AML and managing objects in the name space are almost finished. We're going to make configuration utility first with AML interpreter in

Re: ACPI project progress report - Nov.

1999-11-30 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mitsuru IWASAKI writes: : Hi, here is the Nov. progress report from ACPI project in Japan. Cool. This is indeed good news. Keep up the good reports. iwasaki-san to acpi-jp wa domo arigato gozaimasu. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

ACPI project progress report - Nov.

1999-11-29 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, here is the Nov. progress report from ACPI project in Japan. 1. Summary of our activities in this month: - setup CVS repository and CVSup collection for developing environment (jp-acpi collection on cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org). - improve device driver (S1 and S5 state transition are