Re: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_ACPI_RELAXED_AML option

["Matthew Tippett" <matthew-+XluyfkzffvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Carlos Morgado wrote:
> 
> On 2002.12.13 16:22:43 +0000 "Moore, Robert" wrote:
> 
>>
>> What is really being proposed here is for Linux ACPI to be
bug-for-bug
>> compatible with Microsoft.  This is impossible to do
deterministically
>> because the MS interpreter is closed source.  The only standard that 
>> we have
>> that we can code to is the ACPI specification, and this has to be the
>> last
>> word on the matter.
>>
> 
> not to mention windows tends to ignore builtin dsdts afaik and use the
ones
> distributed in windows drivers.

Continuing with this thread, would it make sense to be ACPI compliant 
but allow 'custom' dsdts to be passed to the acpi subsystem to allow 
users to work around less than perfect implementations from
manufacturers.

Although I am not as clued into the inner workings of ACPI, it may be 
extensible to allow developers to highlight to manufacturers where there
dstd is broken and how to have it fixed.

Regards,

Matthew


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