Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 00:07:29 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: swsusp in 2.6.16: works fine w/o PSE on a VIA C3?
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On Čt 25-05-06 02:10:55, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> I was just feeling lucky and tried suspend-to-disk cycle
> on my VIA C3 machine, which lacks PSE which is marked as
> being required for swsusp to work.  After commenting out
> the PSE check in include/asm-i386/suspend.h and rebooting,
> I tried the whole cycle, several times, with real load
> (while running 3 kernel compile in parallel) and while
> IDLE... And surprizingly, it all worked flawlessly for
> me, without a single glitch...
> 
> So the question is: is PSE really needed nowadays?

I think so. If page directories are in "right" order in memory, it is
possible it works without PSE...
								Pavel
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