On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:59 +0200, Faik Uygur wrote: > 14 Oca 2007 Paz 03:23 tarihinde, Robert Hancock şunları yazmıştı: > >> [...] > >> > Since you're getting to this point I think this has to be some kind of > > BIOS interaction causing this. The only thing that happens after the > > "Entering sleep state" is that the kernel writes to some ACPI registers > > to tell the hardware to power down. I think some laptop BIOSes do things > > on ACPI power down like try to park the drive heads, etc. and maybe this > > change that you found from git bisecting is somehow interfering with it > > doing this? > > > > Might want to check for a BIOS update first of all.. > > Checked from the Sony support page for the laptop model and seems the BIOS > version is the latest. > > So it is nothing interesting but a broken BIOS.
Hi, I'd be interested in finding out how to best test this; if the bios is really broken I'd love to add a test to the Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit for this, so that BIOS developers can make sure future bioses do not suffer from this bug... Greetings, Arjan van de Ven -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
