Re: new Linux/ACPI home page

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Thursday, 25 October 2007 22:29, Len Brown wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007 15:24, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> > Len Brown wrote:
> 
> > > and going away), and the DSDT databse -- which I believe
> > > is also somewhat of a historical artifact.
> 
> > DSDT database or better acpidump.out database might be very useful,
> > if could be searched for particular feature -- absence of EC, use of SBS, etc.
> 
> True.
> 
> I don't like the original DSDT database -- it was from an era
> when people thought that it was a good idea to hack a DSDT
> to workaround Linux failures and share the hacked DSDT
> with others.  That was a bad strategy and it should be abandoned.
> DSDT hacking is for Linux debugging only -- Linux should
> always be made to work with an un-modified DSDT.

I violently agree.

> yes, acpidump would be more useful than just the DSDT --
> as we get all kinds of issues with all the tables.
> 
> One problem is that shipping around BIOS images, particularly
> modified ones, is sort of a touchy area.  This is the code
> of the manufacturer, who may or may not be happy that the
> community is hacking their code.  If any of those manufactureres
> got mad at Intel for mucking with their BIOS code,
> that would be a bad day for we Intel employees.
> 
> lesswatts.org is hosted by Intel.  So we'd need to
> sort though this issue before adding an acpidump database.

Well, we have suspend.sf.net and the acpidump database can safely be put in
there, I think. ;-)

Greetings,
Rafael