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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>,
	"Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <Linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	me@markdoughty.co.uk, ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] : ACPI : Use RSDT instead of XSDT by adding boot option of "acpi=rsdt"
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:59:28 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901090556360.4091@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901091154.43606.trenn@suse.de>



> > >    In such case the boot option of "acpi=rsdt" is provided so that
> > > RSDT is tried instead of XSDT table when the system can't work well.
> 
> Great, now we still need a dmi blacklist with machines which are known
> broken. Then we are at the patchset I posted about a year ago -> scnr.
> 
> I am going to post the missing two patches to make R40e and R50e work.

please do not.

this option is just for manual debugging.
as i wrote when i nacked your original series,
the object should be to figure out which path to take w/o using dmi.

thanks,
-Len


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-09 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-31 18:42 [PATCH] ACPI: EC: clean up tmp variable before reuse Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-11-03  8:02 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-03  8:24 ` [PATCH]: ACPI: Initialize EC global lock based on the return value of _GLK Zhao Yakui
2008-11-04  7:41 ` [PATCH]: ACPI Cleanup :Initialize EC global lock based on the return status Zhao Yakui
2008-11-04  8:05   ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-11-04  8:58     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-11-04  9:21       ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-11-04  9:37     ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-04  9:38       ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-11-05  1:05         ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-05  7:24           ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-12-17  8:55 ` [PATCH] : ACPI : Use RSDT instead of XSDT by adding boot option of "acpi=rsdt" Zhao Yakui
2009-01-09  6:35   ` Len Brown
2009-01-09 10:54     ` Thomas Renninger
2009-01-09 10:59       ` Len Brown [this message]
2009-01-09 12:16         ` Thomas Renninger
2009-01-09 12:34           ` Matthew Garrett
2009-01-12 14:13             ` Thomas Renninger
2009-01-12 14:16               ` Matthew Garrett
2009-01-12 22:17                 ` Thomas Renninger
2009-01-12 23:38                   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-01-09 10:58   ` Blacklist known broken machines to use the rsdt and enabled Cstates on R40e Thomas Renninger
2009-01-09 10:58   ` [PATCH 1/2] Blacklist known broken machines (ThinkPad R40e and R50e) to use rsdt instead xsdt Thomas Renninger
2009-01-09 10:58   ` [PATCH 2/2] R40e using rsdt (previous patch) makes all Cstates work -> remove blacklisting Thomas Renninger
2008-12-30  4:01 ` [PATCH] : ACPI : Add the MWAIT C-state mask to avoid overflow Zhao Yakui
2009-01-04  4:04 ` Zhao Yakui
2009-01-09  6:28   ` Len Brown
2009-01-12  7:07 ` [PATCH] : ACPI : Use clocksource to get the C-state time instead of ACPI PM timer Zhao Yakui
2009-01-12  7:58   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-01-12  9:31     ` Zhao Yakui
2009-01-12 12:27       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-01-12  9:39     ` Zhao Yakui
2009-01-12 22:09   ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-01-13  1:26     ` Zhao Yakui
2009-01-13  1:42     ` Zhao Yakui
2009-01-13  3:50 ` [RESEND] " Zhao Yakui
2009-01-20  2:52   ` Len Brown

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