From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>,
Grover Andrew <andrew.grover@intel.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Subtle semantic issue with sleep callbacks in drivers
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:09:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030417150926.GA25402@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304171509.h3HF9PS1000278@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 04:09:25PM +0100, John Bradford wrote:
> > The video BIOS on a card often contains information that is found
> > -nowhere- else. Not in the chip docs. Not in a device driver.
> > Such information can and does vary from board-to-board, such as RAM
> > timings, while the chip remains unchanged.
>
> Incidently, what happens if we:
>
> * Suspend
> * Swap VGA card with another one
> * Restore
When it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
That's a "Don't Do That" issue for any hardware between suspend
and resume.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-17 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-14 21:09 Subtle semantic issue with sleep callbacks in drivers Grover, Andrew
2003-04-16 18:39 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-04-16 19:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-17 13:35 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-17 14:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 15:09 ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:09 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-04-17 15:47 ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-17 16:24 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-18 7:37 ` Greg KH
2003-04-18 7:51 ` John Bradford
2003-04-18 9:10 ` Russell King
2003-04-18 11:18 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-18 11:30 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-29 8:28 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-17 14:59 ` John Bradford
2003-04-17 15:04 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-14 19:07 Grover, Andrew
2003-04-14 19:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-14 19:56 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-23 15:34 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-14 17:09 Grover, Andrew
2003-04-14 17:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-23 15:29 ` Pavel Machek
2003-04-14 10:00 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-14 10:11 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-16 18:31 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-04-16 19:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-04-23 15:32 ` Pavel Machek
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