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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI suspend: Blacklist HP xw4600 Workstation for old code ordering
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:15:26 +0100
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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 of October 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > I think trying to work out what would be more useful than just adding it to
> > a blacklist. 
> 
> Well, machines that require the "old" ordering are simply broken, because
> you just can't assume that specific devices are not in D3 before you
> execute _PTS.
> 
> IOW, we aren't doing anything wrong and the BIOS is buggy.

So how does Windows cope with this?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org