Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 22:10:13 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Mike Mohr <akihana@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reboot & ACPI suspend Laptop display initialization
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Hi!

Don't top-post.

> Hmm.  It seems unlikely to me that Toshiba will bother fixing a bug
> like this (even as serious as this one is) for a 3-yr-old laptop on my
> request.  I checked, and I already have the latest BIOS released by
> them on 9-24-2002.  The fact that they let a bug as serious as this
> through their QA really shocks me, esp. since my wife works for

Actually I'm not surprised. Embedded controller locked up because
Linux did something unexpected. That's still hardware problem, but quite tricky
to catch.

You can still try to find "what us it that upsets EC", and work around it
in Linux. printk/mdelay is your friend.

				Pavel
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