Re: ACPI trouble (AC module, etc.) with Toshiba 1115-S103

[Ducrot Bruno <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:58:26PM -0800, NoZizzing OrDripping wrote:
> --- Ducrot Bruno <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> wrote:


...

> 
> OK, I went thru the process of creating a modified
> ASL (diffs from the original attached) for this
> laptop.
> Basically, I cleaned up the original so that the
> errors
> from "iasl" went away.
> 
> I now have a working AC module.
> 
> This is a stopgap measure though, correct?  The goal
> should be for the Linux kernel to support the existing
> AML in flash (the AML apparently comes from Microsoft)

No, it come from your BIOS.  Microsoft make only a
interpreter for it, as for ACPI-CA.

> on these laptops.  The BIOS on these machines is about
> as fresh as it gets (Nov, 2002).  It seems to me that
> the Intel ASL compiler and interpreter needs to be
> changed/relaxed to accomodate what has become a
> defacto
> (de-gates-o) standard here.
> 
> As a practical matter, I can't imagine non-programmer
> types having to modify their ASL code to make Linux
> work on their laptops, and I can't imagine that Ducrot
> wants to be the single, worldwide point, for modified

No, I don't want to.  FreeBSD acpi team is good also for
this stuff as well.

> Would the ACPI developers be receptive if I made the
> changes necessary to allow the kernel ACPI code to
> accept the existing AML in my laptop as-is?

It's up to Intel ACPI guy to decide, but if I were them,
I will _not_ allow to do the same kind of bug as MS.

Imagine if they have to program as a MS developper...

-- 
Ducrot Bruno

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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