Hi!
> > > > > (Looks like this is some sort of default that returned when system
> > > > > integrators are too lazy. Perhaps mainboard and BIOS release date also
> > > > > need to be used in these circumstances?)
> > > >
> > > > Patch would be welcome ;-).
> > >
> > > No. It proves more and more that DMI data is just not a reliable way to
> > > identify machines. We should probably move to use the PCI vendor,
> > > subvendor
> > > and device IDs of the Graphics card and maybe the root bridge or something
> > > like that.
> > > I will, however, not implement this, since we can do that very easily with
> > > HAL and HAL will just pass the correct options via pm-utils to s2ram.
> > >
> > > This will mean that the whitelist will move from s2ram to the hal-info
> > > package, but there is already a whitelist used by the distributions that
> > > do not use s2ram, and a unified solution will probably be the best long-
> > > term solution.
> > >
> > > All just my humble opinion, of course. If somebody wants to implement
> > > PCI-ID matching and maintain the whitelist for that, i will welcome this,
> > > too. I for myself am just allergic to duplicated work :-)
> >
> > I'd actually prefer to do it in s2ram... so that it works inside
> > init=/bin/bash. But feel free to steal^Wborrow hal's whitelist ;-).
>
> Well, I'm starting to wonder if we really really need the whitelist to be
> compiled into s2ram. In fact we only need to tell new users what s2ram
> options
> they should use for their machines.
>
> For example, if the docs say "please have a look into whitelist.txt to see
> what s2ram options are known to work with your machine" etc., we'll be able
> to maintain the whitelist as a separate document, IMHO, and the HAL or
> pm-tools
> people can use some more sophisticated whitelisting independently.
Been there, done that, no I do not think it worked. See
Doc*/power/video.txt.
Pavel
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