Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261427AbVBGOXK (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:23:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261426AbVBGOXK (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:23:10 -0500 Received: from gprs215-44.eurotel.cz ([160.218.215.44]:8101 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261427AbVBGOWq (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:22:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:22:19 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Helge Hafting Cc: Jon Smirl , Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=F6singer?= , acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Ondrej Zary , Matthew Garrett , Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , ncunningham@linuxmail.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume Message-ID: <20050207142219.GC8040@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050122134205.GA9354@wsc-gmbh.de> <4204B3C1.80706@rainbow-software.org> <9e473391050205074769e4f10@mail.gmail.com> <200502051748.43547.stefandoesinger@gmx.at> <9e47339105020509382adbbf39@mail.gmail.com> <420740F1.5050609@hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <420740F1.5050609@hist.no> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1212 Lines: 30 Hi! > >The problem with the radeon reset code is that there are many, many > >variations of the radeon chips, including different steppings of the > >same part. The ROM is matched to the paticular bugs of the chip. From > >what I know ATI doesn't even have a universal radeon reset program. > > > > > Maybe they could provide such a program, if asked? > Basically, a chip detect and a switch statement containing all > the bios reset sequences they have. > > They may want to protect "trade secrets" about innovative > 3D-pipelines and such. But the bios reset is probably not that > high-end, so perhaps they could provide source code for it? Try asking them, then ;-).... Asked the right way, they might even tell you. I believe right way is "I'd like to buy 10000 cards, but I need suspend-to-RAM to work". Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - 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/