From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] ACPI: EC: Don't trust ECDT tables from ASUS Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 01:09:38 +0100 Message-ID: <200812030109.38768.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <20081201204706.32465.23231.stgit@thinkpad> <20081202155228.GI1668@khazad-dum.debian.net> <49356C9C.4050907@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:43780 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752872AbYLCAJy (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:09:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49356C9C.4050907@suse.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alexey Starikovskiy Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Zhao Yakui , LenBrown , "Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" On Tuesday, 2 of December 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > 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. > I've talked to several Taiwanese notebook BIOS writers lately, and they all seem to > know only one thing -- if Windows boots, BIOS is ok. So we might write huge banners in > neon letters -- it will not work... At least the users may notice and hopefully they will buy from another vendor next time ... Thanks, Rafael