Re: Improve PCI config space writeback.

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On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:27:07AM +1000, Ben Herrenschmidt wrote:
 > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 17:42 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > At least one laptop blew up on resume from suspend with a black screen
 > > due to a lack of this patch.  By only writing back config space that
 > > is different, we minimise the possibility of accidents like this.
 > > 
 > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
 > 
 > I think it's a mistake to restore the command register before the rest.
 > It should be restored last.

Adam Belay had a patch that did this, and a bunch of other similar
things (like making sure we never set BIST when restoring).

There are likely a number of similar possible improvements.

		Dave

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