From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: ACPICA regression checker Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:48:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20060712224855.GA16699@srcf.ucam.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:60878 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932360AbWGLWtA (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:49:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Brown, Len" Cc: trenn@suse.de, "Moore, Robert" , "Yu, Ling L" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:01:30PM -0400, Brown, Len wrote: > Platform ACPI compliance Test > This is sorely needed by the community to replace WHQL as the test > that vendors run to make sure they got their ACPI implementation right. > It would be a turn-key test that runs on a platform and gives > a yes/no on compliance, and diagnostics on failures. Based on our previous conversations, would this require that platforms reinitialise video themselves? And, what's probably a harder question, is there any real chance of there being sufficient political will in Intel to make passing this a requirement for claiming ACPI compliance? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org