Re: [RFT] x86 acpi: normalize segment descriptor register on resume

Pavel Machek
2008-07-14T07:38:38Z

On Sun 2008-07-13 21:18:02, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> The most likely explanation for this is that the VESA BIOS expects to be
>> entered in Big Real Mode (*.limit = 0xffffffff) instead of ordinary Real
>> Mode. Here is a completely untested patch which changes the segment
>> descriptors to Big Real Mode instead. It would be worth testing out.
>>
>
> ... and here is one that actually has a prayer of actually working.

I tried 2.6.26, but it does not seem to be broken here :-(. Thinkpad
x60. So it does not seem _all_ thinkpads have this problem...

Pavel

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