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

Alan Cox
2003-05-19T17:55:01Z

On Llu, 2003-05-19 at 18:38, Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote:
> That said, it would be nice to relax that constraint in the Linux
> ACPI implementation. The BIOS developers are aware of the issue and
> they are rolling that change into new implementations going forward,
> but there's no way all existing laptops will get new versions of the
> BIOS.

There I would agree. The -ac 2.4 tree has a config option for "relaxed"
ACPI, so you can have it to the spec - which might suit the more
paranoid types such as telco's, or to the reality which is a bit looser.
This is a prime candidate

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