RE: ACPI C4 support

Grover, Andrew
2004-03-01T21:26:09Z

> 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

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