Subject: Re: Call for testers: i386 ACPI suspend/resume support
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 06/18/2006 22:50:50
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 23:38:56 -0300 (ADT), "Jared D. McNeill"
<jmcneill@invisible.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >> btw, like Steve Bellovin I have both the ichlpcib and the piixpcib in my
> >> config. It seems to preference the piixpcib at boot time.
> >>
> > Actually, I don't; I have ichlpcib only. I'd like both of them to be in
> > the config file because most folks don't know which to select.
>
> I actually just committed a change so ichlpcib and piixpcib aren't
> required. I'm now using the ACPI table to fixup interrupt routing -- much
> easier than writing platform specific code for every new chip that is
> released.
>
Even better! (Though seeing that there's a watchdog timer in ichlpcib is
intriguing.)
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb