Re: 2.6.0-test6: APM unable to suspend (the 2.6.0-test2 saga continues)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Russell King wrote:
> 
> Would it be possible to switch LDT/GDT to whatever the APM BIOS expects
> just before calling the APM BIOS to suspend/hibernate, and restore them
> to whatever Linux requires after the APM BIOS returns from resume?

Possible, yes. But it would help a lot to know what's wrong with the 
current segments - we did leave most of them with exactly the same layout 
as before, and I thought we explicitly left the ones that APM cares about 
that way..

		Linus
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