From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Len Brown Subject: Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3 Date: 17 Feb 2005 18:12:57 -0500 Message-ID: <1108681977.2096.507.camel@d845pe> References: <20050214211105.GA12808@elf.ucw.cz> <1108621005.2096.412.camel@d845pe> <20050217101533.GA15721@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050217101533.GA15721-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: Pavel Machek , ACPI mailing list , Kernel Mailing List , seife-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org, rjw-KKrjLPT3xs0@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 05:15, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > 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 2. Use Intel's ACPICA ASL compiler -- if not for production, then at least as a static source code checker for validation. thanks, -Len ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click