From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Johannes Engel <j-engel@gmx.de>
Cc: "Matija Šuklje" <matija.suklje@rutka.net>,
"Alexey Starikovskiy" <aystarik@gmail.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is it so hard to (get) help on ACPI?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 23:24:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070517222432.GA25402@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464CD43E.8060409@gmx.de>
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:16:30AM +0200, Johannes Engel wrote:
> Hm, I do not totally agree. Since in some cases you know that a BIOS
> update caused the trouble it seems to be likely in my eyes that these
> problems could be fixed by DSDT changes. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The DSDT is far from the only bit of the BIOS used during
suspend/resume. When you wake up, the system jumps back into the BIOS.
An arbitrarily large amount of code can be executed there before control
is passed back to the kernel. That's likely to be much more significant.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-17 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 18:05 Why is it so hard to (get) help on ACPI? Matija Šuklje
2007-05-17 18:58 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-05-17 19:21 ` Norbert Preining
2007-05-17 19:32 ` Matija Šuklje
[not found] ` <8f8ff01d0705171256m39b6e5t8a69f8095f00594b@mail.gmail.com>
2007-05-17 20:10 ` Matija Šuklje
2007-05-17 20:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-05-17 22:16 ` Johannes Engel
2007-05-17 22:20 ` Matija Šuklje
2007-05-17 22:24 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-05-17 19:52 ` Matija Šuklje
2007-05-17 20:32 ` Len Brown
2007-05-17 20:43 ` Matija Šuklje
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