linux-kernel - Re: Nvidia cable detection problems & ACPI (beware, slight off-top)

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Date:	Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:55:28 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>,
	Allen Martin <AMartin@...dia.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Nvidia cable detection problems & ACPI (beware, slight off-top)

Alan wrote:
>> I'm very upset, that hardware nvidia-lego forces system software (and
>> programmers) to know "unfortunately no standard" ways of desinging
>> things... One read-only-for-os, hardware set bit in kind of control
> 
> The hardware doesn't. The BIOS authors do by not setting the cable flags.
> We actually need to use the STM and GTM methods for PC suspend/resume so
> it makes sense to see if they will work out in this case too.


We also need ACPI, where available, because that's the only way to 
obtain a BIOS-set hard drive password.  And BIOS vendors often deliver 
hard drive-specific errata this way, if the problem is serious enough 
(though certainly we would prefer that the OS knows about drive errata, 
when a runtime patch is necessary)

	Jeff


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