From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753542AbYI3CXx (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:23:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752165AbYI3CXq (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:23:46 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49709 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751538AbYI3CXp (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:23:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:23:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Arjan van de Ven cc: Dave Airlie , Jiri Kosina , Linux Kernel Mailing List , jesse.brandeburg@intel.com Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8 In-Reply-To: <20080929190612.111f16ac@infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <21d7e9970809291859s5bff81e3ue0f63402c2ad422d@mail.gmail.com> <20080929190612.111f16ac@infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > we have a patch to save/restore now, in final testing stages > (obviously we want to be really careful with this) Btw, the _real_ bug is clearly in the hardware design that allows you to brick those things without apparently even having a lock bit. I'm hoping Intel doesn't treat this as just a software bug. Some hw designer should be thinking hard about which orifice they put their head up in. It used to be that you could fry some monitors by feeding them out-of-range signals. The _monitors_ got fixed. Linus