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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Subtle semantic issue with sleep callbacks in drivers
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:29:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030423152927.GB3035@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F760B14C9561B941B89469F59BA3A84725A260@orsmsx401.jf.intel.com>

Hi!

> > - On non-PPC machines, the slot will eventually go to D3, but 
> > the APM BIOS or ACPI will be able to re-POST the card 
> > properly on wakeup, so the driver only needs to restore the 
> > current display mode, at least I guess so since I don't know 
> > much about x86's. Similar will happen once I have an OF 
> > emulator ready on PPC to re-POST some cards, thus changing 
> > the previous example into this one. In this case, the driver 
> > can put the chip to D3 and can _accept_ the sleep request 
> > because it's explicitely told by the system (how ?) that the 
> > card will be re-POSTED prior to the
> > resume() callback.
> 
> Topic drift...
> 
> After asking around internally, it sounds like we should not be doing a
> video re-POST on wakeup. Windows only used to in order to workaround
> buggy video drivers, according to what I've heard.

We really should not be doing that, but we... kind of have to. Thats
why acpi_sleep=s3_bios exists. I really don't know how to work around
it.
								Pavel
-- 
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-23 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-14 17:09 Subtle semantic issue with sleep callbacks in drivers Grover, Andrew
2003-04-14 17:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-23 15:29 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-14 21:09 Grover, Andrew
2003-04-16 18:39 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-04-16 19:36   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-17 13:35   ` Alan Cox
2003-04-17 14:48     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 15:09       ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:09         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 15:47           ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:56             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 16:24               ` Alan Cox
2003-04-18  7:37             ` Greg KH
2003-04-18  7:51               ` John Bradford
2003-04-18  9:10               ` Russell King
2003-04-18 11:18                 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-18 11:30               ` Alan Cox
2003-04-29  8:28         ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-17 14:59     ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:04       ` Alan Cox
2003-04-14 19:07 Grover, Andrew
2003-04-14 19:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-14 19:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-23 15:34 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-14 10:00 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-14 10:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-16 18:31 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-04-16 19:29   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-23 15:32 ` Pavel Machek

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