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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:23:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27-rc8 On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > we have a patch to save/restore now, in final testing stages > (obviously we want to be really careful with this) Btw, the _real_ bug is clearly in the hardware design that allows you to brick those things without apparently even having a lock bit. I'm hoping Intel doesn't treat this as just a software bug. Some hw designer should be thinking hard about which orifice they put their head up in. It used to be that you could fry some monitors by feeding them out-of-range signals. The _monitors_ got fixed. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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