Re: RE: ACPI -- Workaround for broken DSDT

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:33:14AM -0600, Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote:
> Bas Mevissen wrote:
> > 
> > ACPI committee did not push a proper validation program. It's 
> > like the 
> > web "standards": standards are therem but everybody tests with IE and 
> > most web developers are satisfied when it works with it...
> > 
> > ACPI committee should make a proper validation mandatory before a 
> > computer may be sold as "ACPI X.Y compliant". Then manufacturers can 
> > test against (open) validation platform and Linux-ACPI can be 
> > validated 
> > against it too.
> 
> This is a very good point, something for all of us to remember when
> participating in any standards-creating process.
> 
> Also, if there were a Linux-ACPI standard validation suite, it would
> make HP's Linux QA Engineers very happy, and much more likely to
> find and fix ACPI AML errors *before* we ship new hardware.  Anyone
> interested in working on something like that?
> 

That may be a lot of time consuming for single individual like me that
need to work on complete different topic, or else I can not pay my
car for example.

Cheers,

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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