bug#24087: recovery from suspend is broken with recent libreboot + linux-libre 4.7

[ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>]

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> I know more people than just me are using libreboot here, do you have
>>> any problems with suspend and recovery?
>>
>> I have a X200 and some time after waking up from suspend on the first
>> larger disk access it hangs, losing all the dirty sector payload in
>> the process. This is Guix-specific, the same machine works just fine
>> on Ubuntu.
>
> It's unlikely to be Guix-specific.  More likely, it's related to the
> kernel version.  On several occasions in the past, new kernels have been
> found to have problems on Libreboot systems.
>
> We include older kernel versions: linux-libre-4.4 and linux-libre-4.1,
> which you can select via the 'kernel' field of the OS configuration,
> e.g.: (kernel linux-libre-4.4)
>
> Can you try these and see if the problem persists?
>
> For what it's worth, linux-libre-4.7 works well for me on my Libreboot
> X60.
>
>        Mark
I think this is more or less coreboot and libreboot related.
Libreboot is working on it[0], and I'd rather sit on this bug until it
is solved upstream. Testing t400 image now could mean to repeat the
disassemble,reassemble procedure if I get a brick[1] ;)


[0]: https://libreboot.org/download/#tasks
[1]: http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/fatherted/images/1/17/Brick.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20110426185303
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