Re: ACPI C4 support

Bruno Ducrot
2004-03-02T09:52:53Z

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 01:26:09PM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> > From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org]
> > If there is old BIOS guide telling them to use length of 7, could we
> > make Linux accept that? Its likely a lot of developers have read
> > that...
> >
> > Allowing length of 7 is one line change; if we do it, such notebooks
> > will be able to use C1..C3, but not C4. That does not seem too bad...
>
> I would favor being a little more demanding before adding a hack. This
> could be EASILY fixed by a BIOS update, now that the BIOS developer
> knows it is wrong. If this is a common BIOS error then maybe that
> changes things.
>
> BTW, hey wasn't someone going to implement _CST support? FreeBSD already
> has this, we're behind*! ;-)
>
> Regards -- Andy
>
> * not that any systems use it yet, but it's coming

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1958

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