From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: "'Pavel Machek'" <pavel@suse.cz>,
Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2]
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 01:25:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020605012529.F4751@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59885C5E3098D511AD690002A5072D3C02AB7ED9@orsmsx111.jf.intel.com>
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:09:48PM -0700, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> > Can you confirm that you're not advocating a "ACPI or Legacy"
> > approach ?
> > I think you're aware of the dragons that lie that way, but I
> > want to be sure my suspicions are unfounded.
> All I can say is using just *part* of ACPI will cause some machine,
> somewhere, to not work. I want to avoid scenarios where that happens. If
> there are issues with that, can we discuss them asap, perhaps now?
Think vendor kernel. There we want to run on ancient pre-ACPI boxes,
and super duper new box with borken/non-existant legacy tables.
So just keep in mind that compiling both into the kernel is a must have
requirement.
Dave.
--
| Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-04 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-04 23:09 [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2] Grover, Andrew
2002-06-04 23:25 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-06-05 1:00 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-04 23:31 Grover, Andrew
2002-06-04 21:58 Grover, Andrew
2002-06-04 22:09 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-04 23:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-07 5:38 ` fchabaud
2002-06-04 20:59 Grover, Andrew
2002-06-04 21:20 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-05 1:34 ` Brad Hards
2002-06-05 10:29 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-05 23:11 ` Brad Hards
2002-06-03 1:56 Linux 2.5.20 Linus Torvalds
2002-06-03 3:18 ` [patch] i386 "General Options" - begone [take 2] Brad Hards
2002-06-03 22:42 ` Rusty Russell
2002-06-04 14:09 ` Pavel Machek
2002-06-04 22:05 ` Brad Hards
2002-06-02 5:16 ` Pavel Machek
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