[coreboot] ACPI S3
Rudolf Marek
r.marek at assembler.cz
Sat Nov 15 00:32:37 CET 2008
Hi all,
As Jordan noted, some device context must be restored. It won't fit in CMOS.
Some chipset have additional NVRAM for this S3 resume process.
You have basically two options:
1) Follow the way I did, re-run coreboot and jump later to OS waking vector.
Check the patches and the other threads.
2) Save memory config in CMOS, restore memory config, restore memory, re-init
the chipset registers (not the leafs) and jump to OS vector. This means that the
rest of device state is saved in reserved RAM. To be sure to save actual context
you will need also SMM (system management mode trap) and trap the SLP register
write, do the backup of all important registers and then go off.
I think easier is 1) Only problem is about memory overwrites. Check the Jason's
thread. He is facing similar issues. Maybe put whole coreboot to
TOPMEM-something and put low memory trampolines and stack to some place where it
don't hurt. You may also save/restore the region during resume.
Rudolf
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