From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754127AbYFAQWS (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:22:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751351AbYFAQWI (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:22:08 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2774 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751106AbYFAQWF (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 12:22:05 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:21:51 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: James Bottomley Cc: Thomas Gleixner , David Miller , tytso@mit.edu, benh@kernel.crashing.org, ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, seife@suse.de Subject: s2ram video problems Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Fixing the Kernel Janitors project Message-ID: <20080601162150.GC5555@ucw.cz> References: <20080529124548.GC8065@mit.edu> <20080529.135431.235149338.davem@davemloft.net> <20080529211404.GH8065@mit.edu> <20080529.143921.34376298.davem@davemloft.net> <1212330249.3373.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1212330249.3373.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > Fix NOHZ/CPUIDLE along with suspend/resume on all participants > > laptops, which are probably 50+ different models. That'd be an odd > > enough mix of wreckaged hardware / BIOS / ACPI. > > > > Should be fun and solve a bunch of hard to grok bugs in the bugzillas > > along the way. > > Well ... in theory. > > In practice, for instance, my laptop had suspend/resume working shortly > after I got it, and the widescreen video too. Most of the problems were > video related, so I did interact with the upstream intel video driver > people, but by and large it was a set of black magic rules to restore > the video to its prior state (in my case, even the vbe tools didn't work > and I had to manually save and restore the pci config space). that's s2ram -v, right? Can you submit a whitelist entry so it starts working for other people, too? -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html