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From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>, LenBrown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	"Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ACPI: EC: Don't trust ECDT tables from ASUS
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:52:28 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081202155228.GI1668@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49350201.9010601@suse.de>

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> ASUSTek keeps feeding us with broken ECDT tables, which are very hard to workaround.
> So, we end up always checking that ECDT from ASUS has the same info as DSDT, and
> bark otherwise.

I wish we would do more of that, AND printk "BIOS BUG" and "FIRMWARE BUG"
everytime we activate any quirk or bug due to something we are completely
sure to be a vendor firmware screw-up.

Otherwise, the situation never seems to get better :(

-- 
  "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

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-02 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-01 20:47 [RFC][PATCH] ACPI: EC: Don't trust ECDT tables from ASUS Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-02  8:14 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-12-02  9:38   ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-02 15:52     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
2008-12-02 17:13       ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-03  0:09         ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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