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SubjectRe: [ACPI] Re: [Proposal]Another way to save/restore PCI config space for suspend/resume
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On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 17:21, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > We suffer from PCI config space issue for a long time, which causes many
> > system can't correctly resume. Current Linux mechanism isn't sufficient.
> > Here is a another idea:
> > Record all PCI writes in Linux kernel, and redo all the write after
> > resume in order. The idea assumes Firmware will restore all PCI config
> > space to the boot time state, which is true at least for IA32.
>
> That looks extremely ugly to me. If you want to do something special
> in resume function, just do it there. It will probably share a lot of
> code with your init function, anyway.
How can you handle devices without driver? And how to save/restore
config space for special devices, such as LPC bridge and host bridge?

-Shaohua

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