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 17:27:32 +0100 Message-ID: <20081020162732.GA10904@srcf.ucam.org> References: <200810192350.57993.trenn@suse.de> <20081020010142.GB32675@srcf.ucam.org> <20081020153153.GA18277@khazad-dum.debian.net> <200810201823.28314.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]:38752 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750984AbYJTQ1l (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:27:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200810201823.28314.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Len Brown , linux-acpi , Zhao Yakui , me@markdoughty.co.uk, linux-thinkpad , "devel@acpica.org" On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:23:27PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote: > The others (these BIOSes seem to not be shared between that many machines) > were tested that this patchset fixes sever bugs: > - system freeze when using C-states on R40e > - much faster booting on R50e I'm still not happy with just DMIing this. If Windows is behaving differently in terms of choosing which values to use, we should be duplicating that behaviour - there may well be other affected systems. Working around it for these specific machines just means it'll take longer to fix properly. Thomas, can Lenovo provide any information about why this hardware works in Windows? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org