Re: [PATCH] ACPI Suspend: Enable ACPI during resume if SCI_EN is not set

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On Sat 2008-10-04 00:05:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> 
> ACPI Suspend: Enable ACPI during resume if SCI_EN is not set
> 
> On some machines, like for example MSI Wind U100, the BIOS doesn't
> enable ACPI before returning control to the OS, which sometimes
> causes resume to fail.  This is against the ACPI specification,
> which clearly states that "When the platform is waking from an S1, S2
> or S3 state, OSPM assumes the hardware is already in the ACPI mode
> and will not issue an ACPI_ENABLE", but it won't hurt to check the
> SCI_EN bit and enable ACPI during resume from S3 if this bit is not
> set.
> 
> Fortunately, we already have acpi_enable() for that, so use it in the
> resume code path, before executing _BFS, in analogy with the
> resume-from-hibernation code path.
> 
> NOTE: We aren't supposed to set SCI_EN directly, because it's owned
> by the hardware.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>

ACK.

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