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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:16:47AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:

> The only reason the VBIOS is run is to initially reset the card. Once
> we get the card reset it isn't used any more. For almost all cards
> this is the only way to reset them, we have insufficient information
> to write this ourselves.

For suspend/resume to ever work reliably, we need to be able to 
reinitialise cards without BIOS support. It would be more useful to 
spend time on that.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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