[hal-info patch] Add default video quirks

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:45:05PM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Current case: Machines stand no chance of working
> > Case with default quirks: Machines stand some chance of working
> 
> My experience differs (again):
> 
> Current case:
> - From X, many machines work without any quirk
> - Since kernels >= 2.6.25, i get an increasing number of reports that quirks
> actually break formerly working suspends. One example is the MacBook1,1, which
> formerly worked with vbestate_restore and now does not allow any quirk.

Irrelevant, since it's an Intel. pm-utils already handles that case.

> > I'm struggling to see how this can realistically be considered a 
> > disadvantage.
> 
> Well, it is pure guesswork if it helps more machines or breaks more machines.
> It will make resume much slower, that's sure.

It will make resume slower on machines that currently resume without 
needing any quirks and which aren't using Intel, nvidia or fglrx. This 
is not a large number of machines.

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