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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Enable A20 using KBC for some MSI laptops to fix S3 resume
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:07:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C78486.9070700@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201212111959.15808.linux@rainbow-software.org>

On 12/11/2012 10:59 AM, Ondrej Zary wrote:
>
> As I said before, the BIOS probably breaks on resume before any Linux code is
> executed. So any fix must be done before suspending.
>

Well, that code should be independent of A20, being in low memory, but 
if the BIOS itself crashes, then that's... yeah.

> I hate quirks too. A general solution would be to always enable A20 using KBC
> (if KBC is present) but that's probably not acceptable.

I don't see why not.  If so we could just do it as part of the 
initialization of the i8042 driver.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-11 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-26  8:56 Ondrej Zary
2012-11-05 20:35 ` Ondrej Zary
2012-12-10 21:26   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-10 22:51     ` Ondrej Zary
2012-12-11 18:59     ` Ondrej Zary
2012-12-11 19:07       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-12-11 20:29         ` Ondrej Zary
2012-12-11 20:36           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-11 20:50             ` Ondrej Zary
2012-12-11 20:56               ` H. Peter Anvin

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