From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Henschel Subject: Re: [ACPI] Re: [ACPI-sppt] supported machines Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:46:56 +0200 Sender: acpi-support-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20030616074656.GB645@enigma.daemon.sh> References: <20030612041209.GA3201@xtrinsic.com> <005501c330ec$6d0c17b0$3746028e@bio.dfo.ca> <20030612142429.GE567@xtrinsic.com> <00fc01c330f0$ea66dd40$3746028e@bio.dfo.ca> <20030612170817.GB1494@xtrinsic.com> <003b01c33113$43186e00$3746028e@bio.dfo.ca> <20030613095618.GC2580@enigma.daemon.sh> <20030613174054.GA3012@hell.org.pl> Reply-To: acpi-support-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030613174054.GA3012-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-support-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-support-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi karol.. * Karol Kozimor [2003-06-16 09:06 +0200]: > Thus wrote Sebastian Henschel: > > well, if any manufacturer reads this, please raise your voice. :) > > only including patches whould also have a technical benefit: the file > > sizes would become smaller. > > so if you found some more supporters, i would update the pages, files a= nd > > database as good as i can. the downside is that i cannot generate a diff > > from the DSTDs where there is no "original" table provided. >=20 > On the other hand, having the DSDT's in one place is very handy and helps > in driver development. At least, we used the database frequently with > Julien, and handling the development without it would be much less > convenient. you mean you looked into the DSDTs of machines you did not have at hand? valid point, i think. another problem i found with diffs is the following: we have no "real" source code of the table. what we have is some binary file where we run a tool for disassembly on. _most_ people use iasl, but do they all do? and apart from that, perhaps different versions of the same tool produce different ASL code. so it is quite possible that a patch can fail, which can be a trivial... or something more sophisticated. > Does file size (we're talking kilobytes of gzipped data) really > matter anyway? well, one archive of DSDTS is about 590k (40k DB) at the moment. this surely does not matter. but due to constraints of sf.net i had to install a little backup scheme which accumulates that amount of data for each day. i usually download the backups once or twice a week and delete them on sf.net afterwards. since we have 100MB available on sf.net, it should not be a problem for now. but the backup scheme must be slowed down when i am away from internet for a couple of weeks. so no, it does not matter that much, just a little. ok, i suggest to put the discussion back on acpi-support only, since no big discussion has arisen on acpi-devel, but they know about it. :) cheers, sebastian --=20 ::: sebastian henschel ::: kodeaffe ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7XXwreHfL3pi+bQRArjMAKCE9ithy7besktob9n/kvDnX+Rc2QCgkq6B VAfGBw8fo57uDdtHgddLtbU= =x8Ax -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MfFXiAuoTsnnDAfZ-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5