Hi,

Have applied the patch by Tom Jones from #253288 which works wonders, but during A/B testing with and without the patch, I stumbled across something potentially significant: Hints given via the boot loader prompt - and presumably via loader.conf - do not survive a suspend/resume cycle.

In this case, the hint to disable hwpstate_intel was set during initial boot, and the system was stable. After a suspend/resume had set my heart racing (it actually worked!), the system wedged shortly after, as if the aforementioned hint had not been set. I'm guessing the hwpstate_intel driver attached itself upon resume because the hint was purged from memory, leading to the wedging problem resurfacing.

I assume this should be easy to test/verify for anyone slightly more qualified than me, but my suspicion is that this will affect a significant number of scenarios where hints (and possibly other loader.conf settings) could be lost.

/Eirik