Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register on resume

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From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 4:33 pm

On Sunday, 13 of July 2008, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

We've had reports from users of Intel graphics and the i915 driver that
previously working quirks started to break their systems with 2.6.26-rc, but
instead the plain "echo mem > /sys/power/state" started to work for them.
Your system may be one of these, but I wonder what the effect of commit
4b4f7280 is.

The first possibility is that the quirks actually didn't work on your system
with 2.6.26-rc before commit 4b4f7280 at all for some obscure reason and
that commit made them work again which in turn resulted in the breakage.

The second possibility is that commit 4b4f7280 actually broke those quirks.

I'm not sure if it's worth the effort to check which of the above really
happened.  After all, you can suspend and resume the box without any quirks
now. ;-)

Thanks,
Rafael
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[RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register on r ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Mon Jun 30, 4:48 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Tue Jul 1, 1:39 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Tue Jul 1, 1:50 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Andy Lutomirski, (Fri Jul 11, 11:29 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sat Jul 12, 11:51 am)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sat Jul 12, 1:47 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sat Jul 12, 1:53 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sat Jul 12, 4:33 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sun Jul 13, 11:02 am)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sun Jul 13, 12:15 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sun Jul 13, 1:29 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Sun Jul 13, 1:32 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Sun Jul 13, 6:22 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Mon Jul 14, 4:22 am)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Mon Jul 14, 1:09 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Rafael J. Wysocki, (Mon Jul 14, 1:10 pm)
Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register ..., Andrew Lutomirski, (Wed Jul 16, 7:13 am)