From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:22:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20050207142219.GC8040@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050122134205.GA9354@wsc-gmbh.de> <4204B3C1.80706@rainbow-software.org> <9e473391050205074769e4f10@mail.gmail.com> <200502051748.43547.stefandoesinger@gmx.at> <9e47339105020509382adbbf39@mail.gmail.com> <420740F1.5050609@hist.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <420740F1.5050609-CND4fxrytsY@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: Helge Hafting Cc: Jon Smirl , Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=F6singer?= , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Ondrej Zary , Matthew Garrett , Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , ncunningham-jjFNsPSvq+iXDw4h08c5KA@public.gmane.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >The problem with the radeon reset code is that there are many, many > >variations of the radeon chips, including different steppings of the > >same part. The ROM is matched to the paticular bugs of the chip. From > >what I know ATI doesn't even have a universal radeon reset program. > > > > > Maybe they could provide such a program, if asked? > Basically, a chip detect and a switch statement containing all > the bios reset sequences they have. > > They may want to protect "trade secrets" about innovative > 3D-pipelines and such. But the bios reset is probably not that > high-end, so perhaps they could provide source code for it? Try asking them, then ;-).... Asked the right way, they might even tell you. I believe right way is "I'd like to buy 10000 cards, but I need suspend-to-RAM to work". Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl