From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265630AbUBBOil (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 09:38:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265636AbUBBOil (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 09:38:41 -0500 Received: from lists.us.dell.com ([143.166.224.162]:30677 "EHLO lists.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265630AbUBBOij (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 09:38:39 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:38:36 -0600 From: Matt Domsch To: "Brown, Len" Cc: trelane@digitasaru.net, bluefoxicy@linux.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ACPI -- Workaround for broken DSDT Message-ID: <20040202083836.A20843@lists.us.dell.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from len.brown@intel.com on Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:33:44PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 11:33:44PM -0500, Brown, Len wrote: > For non-vendor supplied solutions, you might also follow the DSDT link > here: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ Len, this is a really good idea making this available. May I suggest you also have people provide patches between the original and their modified versions, so it's easy for everyone to see what was changed? Thanks, Matt (who's not looking forward to pulling 20 systems from the hardware library and flashing BIOSses to pull the original DSDT to compare with what users suggest need to be fixed for each one before he can file bug reports with the BIOS writers...) -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com