Re: [PATCH v3] pci: prevent putting nvidia GPUs into lower device states on certain intel bridges

[Mika Westerberg]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 03:54:09PM +0200, Karol Herbst wrote:
> > I really would like to provide you more information about such
> > workaround but I'm not aware of any ;-) I have not seen any issues like
> > this when D3cold is properly implemented in the platform.  That's why
> > I'm bit skeptical that this has anything to do with specific Intel PCIe
> > ports. More likely it is some power sequence in the _ON/_OFF() methods
> > that is run differently on Windows.
> 
> yeah.. maybe. I really don't know what's the actual root cause. I just
> know that with this workaround it works perfectly fine on my and some
> other systems it was tested on. Do you know who would be best to
> approach to get proper documentation about those methods and what are
> the actual prerequisites of those methods?

Those should be documented in the ACPI spec. Chapter 7 should explain
power resources and the device power methods in detail.