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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:35:45 -0700
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To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@myrealbox.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, public-kernel-testers-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@lo.gmane.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
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Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> If s3_bios depends on the (invalid) contents of the hidden part of any segment
> register, it's just terminally broken.
> 

Depending on it being in Big Real Mode isn't all that broken, however, 
especially on laptops where the vendor has control over the system 
BIOS/video BIOS.

Enabling BRM by default *shouldn't* break anything, so it might be what 
we want to do anyway.

	-hpa