From: Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap-3NddpPZAyC0@public.gmane.org>,
mflt1-DTdK3Ks6N5kHTnRCetW4+N0b+6lKrnBL@public.gmane.org, "Brown,
Len" <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
acpi-devel-pyega4qmqnRoyOMFzWx49A@public.gmane.org
Subject: Working around bugs in ACPI BIOS [was Re: DSDT in initrd]
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 23:34:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030518213405.GB452@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F760B14C9561B941B89469F59BA3A847E96EA0-sBd4vmA9Se4Lll3ZsUKC9FDQ4js95KgL@public.gmane.org>
Hi!
> I must admit I'm really torn. If there were 2-3 little AML problems that
> if we worked around them, a horde of machines would start working, then
> I think we would do that, but my sense is that there are many more ways
> a DSDT can be broken, and that implementing workarounds for all of them
> would cause other systems to fail. Maybe some of the people who have
> fixed their DSDTs can comment on the scope of bugs out there.
I believe policy should be "if it can't possibly break anyone".
AML functions not returning value can be safely replaced with
returning 0; uninitialized variables can also be initialized with
0. Both should be safe, and we should printk() loudly in both cases.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-18 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-17 1:17 DSDT in initrd Grover, Andrew
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2003-05-18 20:07 ` Mark Santcroos
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2003-05-19 10:10 ` Adachi, Kenichi
2003-05-18 21:34 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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2003-05-19 15:17 ` Working around bugs in ACPI BIOS [was Re: DSDT in initrd] Ducrot Bruno
[not found] ` <20030519151727.GK346-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2003-05-19 15:14 ` Alan Cox
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2003-05-20 14:01 ` Ducrot Bruno
2003-05-19 17:07 ` Kevin Fenzi
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2003-05-19 17:38 Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)
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2003-05-19 17:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-21 12:07 ` Sérgio Monteiro Basto
2003-05-19 17:46 Moore, Robert
2003-05-19 17:50 Grover, Andrew
2003-05-19 18:09 Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)
2003-05-19 18:49 Grover, Andrew
[not found] ` <F760B14C9561B941B89469F59BA3A847E96EA5-sBd4vmA9Se4Lll3ZsUKC9FDQ4js95KgL@public.gmane.org>
2003-05-20 4:11 ` Kevin Fenzi
2003-05-20 22:17 ` Pavel Machek
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