Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/pci

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20081112235119.GB23910%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:48:44AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
>> Does the overhead of chewing up the RAM permanently (how much? 150kB
>> for my iwlwifi-3945.ucode) outweigh a disk access or three on resume?
>
>On many systems you can't load the firmware on resume automatically as
>the disk controller is not yet available.

Why not save it in ram only on and during suspend? Is there an ordering
issue again because the disk might have already been suspended? Should
we add a "prepare to suspend" pass to avoid all the ordering issues?

christos