Re: [PATCH] make my life easier ...

From: Martin Mares (mj@suse.cz)
Date: Wed Oct 25 2000 - 06:42:52 EST


Hello!

> "The Linux 'original' IDE guy' Mark Lord showed Alan what was trying to
> bang over everyone's head, without success.
>
> Here is his sample code for cs5530 chipset.
>
> Look at this and comment. I have part of the space setup to complete the
> APM extenstion calls. This will get you and me out of a jam with laptops.

This doesn't make much sense to me: Why don't we just reinitialize the timings
as we do when programming the chipset instead of saving/restoring the state?

Also, are you sure BIOSes don't save the IDE controller state when suspending?

                                Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> <mj@suse.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
"MIPS:  Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed."
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