Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264644AbVBECFt (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:05:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263749AbVBECFs (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:05:48 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([213.162.118.85]:2480 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264644AbVBECFc (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:05:32 -0500 From: Matthew Garrett To: Jon Smirl Cc: Pavel Machek , Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , ncunningham@linuxmail.org, ACPI List , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <9e4733910502040931955f5a6@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050122134205.GA9354@wsc-gmbh.de> <420217DB.709@gmx.net> <4202A972.1070003@gmx.net> <20050203225410.GB1110@elf.ucw.cz> <1107474198.5727.9.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <4202DF7B.2000506@gmx.net> <9e47339105020321031ccaabb@mail.gmail.com> <420367CF.7060206@gmx.net> <20050204163019.GC1290@elf.ucw.cz> <9e4733910502040931955f5a6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:04:49 +0000 Message-Id: <1107569089.8575.35.camel@tyrosine> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 213.162.118.93 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1 (built Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:06:07 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on cavan.codon.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 17 On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 12:31 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > Fixing this at kernel boot (resume) time will let user space apps > assume that all video cards are reset. That removes a lot of > complexity from the user space apps (like X). This can't be the default on x86. I have hardware that will die if you attempt to POST it after the BIOS has started the OS. Non-x86 should be fine, though. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/