Re: Working around bugs in ACPI BIOS [was Re: DSDT in initrd]

Ducrot Bruno
2003-05-20T14:01:01Z

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 04:14:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-05-19 at 16:17, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> > o relax operational region checking (not so trivial as it sound like,
> > and may be done at acpi init stage imho),
>
> Done in current -ac

I know. But it is not done like I described (at init stage, not
interpreter run stage, and perform not only size check but access
corrections in some trivial case).

> > others?
>
> A please upgrade signature table so that vendors who have fixed bioses
> have a way to let customers find this out without bitching at support

Yeah.

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