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SubjectRe: nonboot cpu on SMP suspend
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On Thursday 19 March 2009, Li Yang wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:04 PM, chen gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Rafael J. Wysocki 写道:
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 18 March 2009, Li Yang wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I'm curious why we need to un-plug all the nonboot cpus before suspend
> >>> and start them all over again after the suspend(ACPI sleep)? I mean
> >>> if we can bring the booting cpu back to the exact state as before
> >>> suspend, why can't we just do the same for non-booting cpus? And that
> >>> will be much faster. Any thought? Thanks.
> >>
> >> Because we need to enter the BIOS with one CPU on-line only.
> >>
> > You mean only one CPU can be supported by BIOS when suspend/resume ?
>
> If so, is it a defect of x86 BIOS? And is it true that for other
> architectures without a BIOS there won't be such a limitation if the
> boot code is sane? Thanks

I think that is a limitation of x86 BIOS and I don't know enough about the
other architectures to comment.

Thanks,
Rafael

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