From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ducrot Bruno Subject: Re: Working around bugs in ACPI BIOS [was Re: DSDT in initrd] Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 16:01:01 +0200 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20030520140101.GR346@poupinou.org> References: <20030518213405.GB452@elf.ucw.cz> <20030519151727.GK346@poupinou.org> <1053357286.28972.0.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1053357286.28972.0.camel-2MMpYkNvuYAXoXS6vNje7nviChZXdy279dF7HbQ/qKg@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Alan Cox Cc: Pavel Machek , "Grover, Andrew" , "Randy.Dunlap" , mflt1-DTdK3Ks6N5kHTnRCetW4+N0b+6lKrnBL@public.gmane.org, "Brown, Len" , acpi-devel-pyega4qmqnRoyOMFzWx49A@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Ducrot Bruno -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge