Re: ACPI in Windows Vista

Shaohua Li
2007-04-24T03:42:53Z

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 02:58 +0800, Len Brown wrote:
> It is useful to see what Microsoft is doing with ACPI in Vista --
> as that shapes many of the BIOS implementations that Linux will
> encounter:
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/9/5b97017b-e28a-4bae-ba48-174cf47d23cd/CPA002_WH06.ppt
vista disable MSI per fadt.iapc_boot_arch flags, looks we should do the
same. This means we don't need MSI quirk too.

I'm curious why firmware shouldn't change low 1M memory between sleep,
considering some ranges are reserved.

Thanks,
Shaohua