From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: rc8 didn't include patch (was Re: 2.6.28-rc7 acpi error messages) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:02:10 +0000 Message-ID: <20081212210210.GA28575@srcf.ucam.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:60750 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752990AbYLLVCU (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:02:20 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Koornstra, Reinoud" Cc: Len Brown , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:22:47PM +0000, Koornstra, Reinoud wrote: > What can I do to help out in this? > I could install windows on this machine as well, but I guess you'd be more interested in how this is supported under windows and just seeing that it's supported well under windows doesn't give the info that's needed. > Since it's HP hardware, HP must have provided detailed specs to MS to be able to do this well, that is ...... > IF it's being supported well. We need to know the precise behaviour of Windows in this case. It's clearly using the 32-bit values by default, but we are currently unsure whether it's taking them from the FADT pointed to by the RSDT or the XSDT. My patch assumes the latter. I suspect that this is better than Linux's current behaviour and so I think we should push it anyway (though perhaps not until the 2.6.29 timeframe), but confirmation as to its correctness would be helpful. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org