Re: RE: ACPI -- Workaround for broken DSDT

[Andi Kleen <ak-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 00:15:36 -0500
"Brown, Len" <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:


> 
> Re: what does windows do?
> Windows doesn't have to do anything.  By being first to ship ACPI, that
> implementation provided the defacto ACPI compliance test to which all
> BIOS' are tested -- even if that implementation is not ACPI spec

I don't think that's completely true. A lot of the DSDTs I looked 
at had special cases for Win98,Win2000,WinXP. Undoubtedly the next
windows versions will also require special cases in the AML.

Longer term all we can hope for is that the next generation of
BIOS will also have a case for Linux.

> compliant.  No, only under dire circumstances will we emulate Windows
> bugs in Linux.

A little bit more bug-to-bug compatibility surely couldn't hurt,
even when Microsoft isn't even compatible to themsevles.

Like we already have the RELAXED_AML mode and everybody enables it ... 
It just isn't often relaxed enough.

-Andi


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