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SubjectRe: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 02:17:22 +0000, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On laptops, it's frequently the case that c000:0003 will jump to a
> section of code that is no longer mapped into the address space.
> Instead, it's entirely possible that some other section of BIOS will be
> mapped there. The resulting behaviour is undefined, and can cause the
> hardware to hang.

I suspect the problem in that case is a compressed VBIOS. Some laptops
compress the VBIOS and the system BIOS into a single ROM and then
expand them at power on. Sounds like this is not happening on resume.
To get around the problem copy the image from C000:0 before suspend to
a place in preserved RAM where wakeup.S can find it and then copy it
back to C000:0 on resume. To test for this checksum C000:0 before
suspend and after and see if it has changed.

You can always do a simple test. If a program like vbios.vm86 or
vbetool can reset the card, then there is no reason wakeup.S shouldn't
be able to do it too if the environment is set up correctly.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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