Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752000AbXLZHYk (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:24:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751247AbXLZHYe (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:24:34 -0500 Received: from il.qumranet.com ([82.166.9.18]:54513 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751222AbXLZHYd (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:24:33 -0500 Message-ID: <4772016D.30900@qumranet.com> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:23:25 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Robert Hancock , Carlos Corbacho , pm list , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Greg KH , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Len Brown , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM References: <200712251312.43478.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> <47713B2B.3000105@shaw.ca> <200712251926.51628.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0rc1 (firebolt.argo.co.il [0.0.0.0]); Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:23:25 +0200 (IST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 931 Lines: 25 Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> IMO, we should check which version of the specification we're supposed to >> follow, on the basis of FADT contents, for example, and follow this one. >> > > No, we should try to figure out what Windows does. *If* windows checks the > version, we should do that too. But we should absolutely *not* just assume > that the documentation is an accurate picture of reality. > > Does anybody know how we could find out? > > Run it in a virtual machine, with the ACPI methods of interest wired to output to some port, and log that I/O port in the monitor/emulator. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. -- 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/