enabling suspend-to-ram for a headless powerpc g4 mac mini

Hi folks,

I'm aware that suspend to ram is not enabled for g4 mac minis, due to lack of support for waking up the video chipset¹.

I use a headless mac mini as a NAS device and so working video is not important to me. That prior thread on the topic gives me enough of a clue to enable support but not to give up attempting to restore the video.

Can anyone give me some hints/pointers on how to configure or hack the kernel so that video is simply ignored?

Thank you very much for any help.

¹ https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2011-January/088159.html

Look at arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/feature.c, fine the machine table and add the flag to your entry: PMAC_MB_CAN_SLEEP

Makes sure you have no video driver loaded at all, nor AGP either.

Finally, it might not work ... hard to tell, there may be other things needed.

Cheers,
Ben.