Re: [PATCH] devexit fixes in i82092.c

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:31:56 -0500


Alan Cox wrote:

>>If it makes it easier for some, I consider poweroff not as an act unto
>>itself, but as a transition to state D3cold. :) And since we will
>>
>
>That isnt neccessarily a good idea. Not every BIOS is terribly keen when
>faced with a soft boot and someone having powered off all the PCI bridges.
>

s/D3cold/D2bios/ if that's easier to think about :) I think we can
apply reboot and poweroff scenarios to the device tree without a
problem, was the basic point. It's just another device powerdown state.
Instead of powering off the PCI bridge, (random example) we restore the
PCI bridge settings to exactly the state it was in when the BIOS booted
the kernel.

Jeff

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