From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH 2/3] Introduce acpi_root_table=rsdt boot param and dmi list to force rsdt Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:01:42 +0100 Message-ID: <20081020010142.GB32675@srcf.ucam.org> References: <200810192350.57993.trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:46799 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751630AbYJTBBw (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:01:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200810192350.57993.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: Len Brown , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , linux-acpi , Zhao Yakui , me@markdoughty.co.uk, linux-thinkpad , "devel@acpica.org" On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:50:55PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > Introduce acpi_root_table=rsdt boot param and dmi list to force rsdt > > References: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8246 > > Blacklist R40e, R51e and T40, T40p, T41, T41p, T42, T42p, R50 and R50p > ThinkPads to use the RSDT instead of the XSDT. I'm very sceptical about this. All of these machines were released years before Vista, which makes me unsure about the diagnosis that this is something to do with Vista readyness. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org