Re: 2.6.18 suspend regression on Intel Macs

[Len Brown]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 17:28, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:41:28PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > "fix" for some value of the word.
> > The problem is that this is very much against the spec, and also quite
> > likely breaks a bunch of machines...
> 
> It works fine under Windows, which suggests that the Windows behaviour 
> is to reenable the bit. 

To me it suggests that both Windows and MacOS provoke the firmware
to re-enable this bit -- it doesn't suggest that the OS is doing it.

> I wouldn't really expect any existing hardware  
> to expect any other sort of behaviour.

I would.  In the known universe, the Mac-mini is the only machine that
seems to need us to explicitly set SCI_EN.

-Len
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