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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>,
	Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: new Linux/ACPI home page
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:17:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071028111716.GF14485@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710252323.45234.rjw@sisk.pl>

Hi!

> > 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. ;-)

Agreed.
									Pavel
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      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-28 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-25 19:07 new Linux/ACPI home page Len Brown
2007-10-25 19:24 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-25 20:29   ` Len Brown
2007-10-25 19:49     ` Peter Clifton
2007-10-25 21:23     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-10-28 11:17       ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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