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

Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-14T20:08:28Z

On Monday, 14 of July 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

Agreed.