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Re: "D3 the chip in the firmware restart code"?



On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Memnon Anon wrote:
> Maybe I should just wait till this is fixed, but nevertheless I'd
> still like to know what D3 the chip means.
> 
> Can anyone shed light on this one?

Sure.  It refers to PCI device power states.  D0 is active, D3 is "almost
powered off" (it is not completely powered off because the device's PCI
interface will still be powered up and online so that the system can access
the device's PCI config space, to e.g. power it up again).

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