[hal-info patch] Add default video quirks

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:08:31PM +0200, ext Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:51:17PM +0200, ext Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> >> you cannot switch to the X-Server while the kernel is POSTing
> >> the BIOS, but you can while vbetool does
> > 
> > In which parallel universe is it a good idea to switch to the X server
> > (and thus let it start bashing registers on the video card) while
> > vbetool is already bashing registers on the video card?
> 
> This is a very bad idea, but users do it, if the resume seems to be stuck.
> And vbetool post / vbetool vbestate restore _can_ take quite some time on some
> machines. And yes, i got bugreports in the past from people doing that.
> 
> I'm not saying it is a good idea - the contrary, but with s3_bios,s3_mode,
> users don't even get a chance to press alt-f7. With vbetool they do.

So you're actually advocating running X mode restoration in parallel to
VBIOS mode restoration? Awesome.

Never mind that your VBIOS hanging points to far deeper problems.  Or
that this will actually hang on newer hardware due to having a cheap
hardware 'lock'.  Or that this will actually hang quite often due to
restoration needing to happen in an excruciatingly specific order.

Cheers,
Daniel
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