Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make my life easier ... | Date | Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:23:48 +1100 | From | Stephen Rothwell <> |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes: > Followup to: <20001025134252.A1024@albireo.ucw.cz> > By author: Martin Mares <mj@suse.cz> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > This doesn't make much sense to me: Why don't we just reinitialize the timings > > as we do when programming the chipset instead of saving/restoring the state? > > > > Also, are you sure BIOSes don't save the IDE controller state when suspending?
I my experience, BIOSes do not do anything that you might expect them to :-) (and usually do things you don't want them to ...)
> Wrong question. The proper question is "are we not sure the BIOS > doesn't save..." and the answer is "with all the buggy BIOSes out > there, of course not." > > Seriously. Relying on the BIOS any more than the absolutely necessary > minimum is way dangerous.
Also, we need to plan for ACPI where we have to do all the power management ourselves ...
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