Re: [PATCH v3] Enable A20 using KBC for some MSI laptops to fix S3resume

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/11/2012 10:59 AM, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> As I said before, the BIOS probably breaks on resume before any Linux code is
> executed. So any fix must be done before suspending.

Well, that code should be independent of A20, being in low memory, but 
if the BIOS itself crashes, then that's... yeah.

> I hate quirks too. A general solution would be to always enable A20 using KBC
> (if KBC is present) but that's probably not acceptable.

I don't see why not.  If so we could just do it as part of the 
initialization of the i8042 driver.

	-hpa

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