Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758087AbYGNUI2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:08:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757992AbYGNUIS (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:08:18 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:45916 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756367AbYGNUIR (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:08:17 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register on resume Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:10:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 20070904.708012) Cc: Andi Kleen , Andy Lutomirski , Matthew Garrett , Ingo Molnar , public-kernel-testers-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@lo.gmane.org, ACPI Devel Maling List , LKML , pm list , Pavel Machek References: <200807010148.02135.rjw@sisk.pl> <200807132229.43140.rjw@sisk.pl> <487ABB81.8020100@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <487ABB81.8020100@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807142210.43035.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 20 On Monday, 14 of July 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > If s3_bios depends on the (invalid) contents of the hidden part of any segment > > register, it's just terminally broken. > > > > Depending on it being in Big Real Mode isn't all that broken, however, > especially on laptops where the vendor has control over the system > BIOS/video BIOS. > > Enabling BRM by default *shouldn't* break anything, so it might be what > we want to do anyway. Agreed. -- 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/