Re: Bitfield usage in FADT table?

Ducrot Bruno
2003-11-11T18:57:17Z

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:25:22PM +0100, maximE bizon wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:57:30PM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
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> > You also forgot to answer to my second question:
> >
> > What you want to do, exactly?
>
> I own a Latitude X200 notebook, with kernel 2.6.0-test9 installed, and
> S3 doesn't work. It was posted here a few days ago. S3 does suspend
> the computer but it is impossible to turn it on again.

S3 seems to be broken in that kernel, anyway.

> I noticed that my power button is detected as a FF because FADT
> pwr_button flag is not set, though the DSDT defines one.
>
> I suspected the S3 problem to come from this, so I tried to correct my
> FADT, but I forgot that the bitfield was on u32...

Why not just hacking the source, instead of overwritten the FADT, for
only one flag?

>
> Now with the correct fix, I can see an acpi event when I press the
> power button, but the system still won't come up after an S3.
>
> Any idea ?
>

perhaps you can try a latest mm serie?

Cheers,

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Ducrot Bruno

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