From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: Onur Kucuk <onur@delipenguen.net>
Cc: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Buggy DSDTs policy ?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:55:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098456935.31003.77.camel@gonzales> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041022174154.2ebd2c5c.onur@delipenguen.net>
Le ven 22/10/2004 à 16:41, Onur Kucuk a écrit :
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:23:27 +0200
> Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > What is the policy w.r.t broken DSDTs and the ACPI subsystem?
> > Specifically, which of these two options is right:
> >
> > 1- Provide a non-buggy DSDT to the kernel
> > 2- Make the ACPI subsystem tolerant of the bugs
> >
> > The option 3, have all biosen over the world fixed is a nice fantasy,
> > but nothing else.
> >
> > If 1, we need to put a mechanism for that in the official kernel.
>
> CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT is included in 2.6.9
But fixed DSDTs are a pain to find, and fixing a buggy DSDT is
impossible for a non-hacker.
Xav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-22 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 12:23 Buggy DSDTs policy ? Olivier Galibert
2004-10-22 14:41 ` Onur Kucuk
2004-10-22 14:55 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2004-10-22 15:19 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-10-22 15:35 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-10-22 16:30 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-10-22 16:44 ` Onur Kucuk
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2004-10-25 5:56 Yu, Luming
2004-10-25 6:21 Yu, Luming
2004-10-25 9:01 ` Pekka Pietikainen
2004-10-25 9:13 ` Xavier Bestel
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