On Monday, July 15, 2013 09:31:27 AM Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > On Monday, July 15, 2013 01:43:57 PM oliver@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Some BIOSes change hardware based on the state of
> > > a laptop's lid. If the lid is closed, the touchpad is
> > > disabled and the checksum changes. Windows 8 no longer
> > > aborts resume if the checksum has changed.
> >
> > I expect more machines will show up and ignore s4_hardware_signature
> > if Windows does not check it and we should do the same.
>
> Windows *8* does not check. But what about older versions? Maybe this
> needs to be guarded by verifying the firmware requested windows-8 mode?
I would not make it too complicated.
Sticking to the latest Windows version should be enough for this one.
What bad should happen if we still try to resume and fail...
Thomas
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