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To: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3 X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. Hi! > > I'm not sure if you can push the whole industry at once. > > The goal is to know what to tell the system vendors > interested in supporting Linux what they should do > with their BIOS on future platforms. > > I believe our message should be: > 1. BIOS should save/restore video in S3 Actually, that'd expect too much of BIOS writers. I believe right solution is "POST video as you do during normal boot in S3 resume". > 2. Use Intel's ACPICA ASL compiler -- if not for production, > then at least as a static source code checker for validation. 3. Try to boot linux (here's live cd). If it complains about bios bugs (dmesg | grep ...), try to see if it is not indeed your bug. -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! ----- End forwarded message ----- -- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
