From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: ACPI_STRICT_COMPLIANCE (was RE: RE: ACPI -- Workaround forbroken DSDT) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:48:35 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20040219224834.GH467@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" Cc: Len Brown , Nate Lawson , "Scott T. Smith" , ACPI Developers , Robert Moore , Andrew Grover List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > think we can put under this umbrella also. > > I agree. This should make a lot of users happy, since the distro's will > work out-of-the-box without modification (at least on those machines > with known workarounds implemented in the ACPI driver), yet the OEMs can > still test for strict compliance by recompiling the kernel. Better than > that would be a kernel command line option to do the same thing. > ACPI_STRICT=ON? You know how OEMs test their hardware? They stick distro CD in, and if it boots, it must be okay :-(. At least command line option would be good, we can't really expect oems to recompile. Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click