Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:22:19 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume |
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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".
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