Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:42:47 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3 |
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Hi! > >>4. Include a mandantory description of video bringup after resume > > > > That sounds overcomplicated. Simply add this to the specs: > > You have to start to think like a vendor with a long legacy. Then my > spec draft will make more sense. Basically, you can't tell a vendor > that his hardware is broken or he will ignore your efforts from that > point on. "It's a question of honour." If, on the other hand, a > vendor can claim his products are conforming to the spec by issuing > a software update for broken hardware, it is much more likely that > the spec gets accepted.
Well, whether you POST video or not is still only software... anyway...
Your _WAK idea could work for notebooks (but if you did it in _WAK you'd break windows, so you'd have to call it _VWK (VideoWaK) or something), but for desktop where user can plug in any video card he buys... I do not see how you can get away with something other than normal POST.
> > BIOS must do that during normal boot; this should be very little > > additional work. > > Not necessarily. Some BIOSes stay in graphics mode during the whole > bootup (at least it seems so) and would have to include additional > code to enter 80x25 text mode.
??? When grub is launched, you are in 80x25 text mode. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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