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SubjectRe: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume
Hi!

> >The problem with the radeon reset code is that there are many, many
> >variations of the radeon chips, including different steppings of the
> >same part. The ROM is matched to the paticular bugs of the chip. From
> >what I know ATI doesn't even have a universal radeon reset program.
> >
> >
> Maybe they could provide such a program, if asked?
> Basically, a chip detect and a switch statement containing all
> the bios reset sequences they have.
>
> They may want to protect "trade secrets" about innovative
> 3D-pipelines and such. But the bios reset is probably not that
> high-end, so perhaps they could provide source code for it?

Try asking them, then ;-)....

Asked the right way, they might even tell you. I believe right way is
"I'd like to buy 10000 cards, but I need suspend-to-RAM to work".

Pavel
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