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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/32] ACPICA: Hardware: Enable 64-bit firmware waking vector for selected FACS.
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    On Friday, June 19, 2015 11:38:28 AM Lv Zheng wrote:
    > ACPICA commit 7aa598d711644ab0de5f70ad88f1e2de253115e4
    >
    > The root cause of the reported bug might be one of the followings:
    > 1. BIOS may favor the 64-bit firmware waking vector address when the
    > version of the FACS is greater than 0 and Linux currently only supports
    > resuming from the real mode, so the 64-bit firmware waking vector has
    > never been set and might be invalid to BIOS while the commit enables
    > higher version FACS.
    > 2. BIOS may favor the FACS reported via the "FIRMWARE_CTRL" field in the
    > FADT while the commit doesn't set the firmware waking vector address of
    > the FACS reported by "FIRMWARE_CTRL", it only sets the firware waking
    > vector address of the FACS reported by "X_FIRMWARE_CTRL".

    I need to go through patches [03-07/32] in detial. I need to understand
    clearly what's going on in them, but I'm too tired for that today.

    I'll get back to them next week.

    Thanks,
    Rafael

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