RE: ACPI/ECDT on gateway 200x notebook

Yu, Luming
2004-01-12T05:39:12Z

> 1- your approach,
That patch need more work to make it more generic and cleaner.

>2- make a kind of setup option, like the patch I send some time ago, in
> order to fake an ECDT, but simplified (the IO ports should be
> the only options). But that require another boot option.

There are two problems:
1. How to get the IO ports?
2. How to handle cases, in which there are more than 1 EC, and they
have different IO ports?

>3- an error runtime handler, which initialize the address space handler
for
> the EC if not already done, and then retry.

This sounds like a good idea , and could be a generic mechanism for
solving this kind of problem.

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