From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH 2/3] Introduce acpi_root_table=rsdt boot param and dmi list to force rsdt Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:31:53 -0200 Message-ID: <20081020153153.GA18277@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <200810192350.57993.trenn@suse.de> <20081020010142.GB32675@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:34005 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750776AbYJTPcA (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:32:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081020010142.GB32675@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Thomas Renninger , Len Brown , linux-acpi , Zhao Yakui , me@markdoughty.co.uk, linux-thinkpad , "devel@acpica.org" On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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. I believe you will find stuff broken due to Vista Readyness badly retro-fitted only on the Z-series and also the T60. The R51e (BIOS TP-78) does NOT share a BIOS with the T40-T42 or any of the two R51 base models. The bugzilla bug report really cannot be used against them. Thomas, do you have extra data not in the bug report that causes you to doubt the TP-1R BIOS? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh