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Re: Xorg and thinkpad x200s



On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:49:16AM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> Beyond that -- someone who knows that driver would have to add power 
> management support.  It's probably just a matter of saving and restoring a 
> few registers, but past that I don't know; I've never looked at that driver 
> and have no knowledge of the device.
> 

Not so easy: this is a dumb driver; when this one is used it's because
nothing better matched. As a catch-all driver, it's can't kow what registers
needs to be saved as this would change between different chips.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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