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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Piel <Eric.Piel@tremplin-utc.net>,
	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Markus Gaugusch <dsdt@gaugusch.at>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] BUG: spinlock bad magic early during boot
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:59:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803171359.31298.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803151315250.3020@woody.linux-foundation.org>


> For things like DVD install images, you'd quite possibly want to have a 
> few known-workaround DSDT images with the installer, and just say "ok, we 
> want to fix up this ACPI crap in order to get working suspend/resume" kind 
> of thing.

For a Linux distro to ship DSDT override images, they'd have to
have some licensing & support arrangement with the OEM
who actually owns that BIOS code.

While this wouldn't defy any laws of physics, it doesn't
look compatible with current industry business practices.

OEMs are more likely to simply ship a BIOS update ISO.

-Len


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-17 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-11  8:14 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-03-11 10:16 ` [Build Faliure] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 build fails Kamalesh Babulal
2008-03-11 10:56   ` Edward Shishkin
2008-03-11 12:55 ` [Build Failure] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Build fails with allmodconfig probe_4drives undefined Kamalesh Babulal
2008-03-11 17:41   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-11 19:35     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-11 18:19   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-11 19:36     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-11 17:09 ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 (paravirt/vsmp/no PCI) Randy Dunlap
2008-03-11 18:18   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-12  0:10     ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2008-03-12  1:42       ` Randy Dunlap
2008-03-12  1:51       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-12  7:14       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-11 20:23 ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 serge
2008-03-11 20:39   ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-03-12 19:33     ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Torsten Kaiser
2008-03-12 19:44       ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-03-12 20:01         ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Torsten Kaiser
2008-03-13 22:05           ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Torsten Kaiser
2008-03-13 22:35             ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Andrew Morton
2008-03-13 23:10               ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Badari Pulavarty
2008-03-21 12:12                 ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Ingo Molnar
2008-03-12  1:14 ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 Dave Young
2008-03-12  7:21 ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1: NO_HZ=Y && PREEMPT_RCU=Y fails to build Laurent Riffard
2008-03-12  7:44   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-12 21:32     ` Laurent Riffard
2008-03-12 23:43   ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-12  9:17 ` [BUILD_FAILURE] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 build fails at startup_ipi_hook() with randconfig Kamalesh Babulal
2008-03-12 12:55 ` [BUG] 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 kernel panic with "Exception: 501 " on powerpc Kamalesh Babulal
2008-03-12 17:46   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-12 17:51     ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-12 22:26       ` Michael Ellerman
2008-03-12 22:33         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-13 13:02           ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-03-12 20:40     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-12 18:14   ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-03-12 18:10 ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 - x86_64 boot problem ? Badari Pulavarty
2008-03-12 18:15   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-13 17:09     ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 - x86_64 boot problem with git-sched.patch Badari Pulavarty
2008-03-13 17:40       ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-03-13 17:55         ` Guillaume Chazarain
2008-03-13 18:20           ` Badari Pulavarty
2008-03-12 23:54 ` [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] BUG: spinlock bad magic early during boot Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-13  0:04   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-13 21:48     ` Dave Hansen
2008-03-13 20:46   ` Dave Hansen
2008-03-14  0:35     ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-14 18:03       ` Dave Hansen
2008-03-14 20:06         ` Dave Hansen
2008-03-14 20:20           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-14 20:51           ` Eric Piel
2008-03-14 21:35             ` Dave Hansen
2008-03-14 22:50               ` Eric Piel
2008-03-14 23:29                 ` Dave Hansen
2008-03-15 12:47                   ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-15 19:21                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-15 19:42                       ` Éric Piel
2008-03-15 20:19                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-16  0:15                           ` Éric Piel
2008-03-17 17:27                             ` Len Brown
     [not found]                               ` <1205858252.21619.233.camel@queen.suse.de>
2008-03-18 20:32                                 ` Len Brown
2008-03-20 14:28                                   ` Thomas Renninger
2008-03-17 17:59                           ` Len Brown [this message]
2008-03-21 13:17                           ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-23 16:00                             ` Dave Hansen
2008-03-24 16:03                               ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-24 17:05                                 ` Eric Piel
2008-03-24 17:19                                   ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-24 17:23                                   ` Dave Hansen
2008-03-27  9:23                               ` Helge Hafting
2008-03-17 18:05                         ` Len Brown
2008-03-16 20:11                     ` Dave Hansen
2008-03-17 12:23                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-03-19 23:50                         ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-17 17:48                 ` Len Brown
2008-03-13  0:15 ` [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] WARNING: at drivers/base/sys.c:173 Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-13 18:34   ` Greg KH
2008-03-13 19:57     ` Dave Jones
2008-03-13 19:56   ` Dave Jones
2008-03-13 20:27     ` Greg KH
2008-03-14  0:01     ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-14  0:44       ` Dave Jones
2008-03-14  0:57       ` Zhao Yakui
2008-03-14  9:58         ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-15 12:16         ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-13 14:03 ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 shutdown crash Helge Hafting
2008-03-13 16:12   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-25 12:23     ` Helge Hafting
2008-03-13 19:48 ` [2.6.25-rc5-mm1] regression: cannot run Postfix sendmail command as non-root Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-13 22:21   ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-03-14  0:08     ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-17 10:44       ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-03-17 12:50         ` Benjamin Thery
2008-03-17 13:35           ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-17 13:06         ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-17 13:17           ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-03-19 17:52   ` Benjamin Thery
2008-03-19 21:16     ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-19 22:14       ` Benjamin Thery
2008-03-19 22:49       ` David Miller
2008-03-20  8:26         ` Benjamin Thery
2008-03-20 10:21           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-20 12:52             ` Pavel Emelyanov
2008-03-20 13:48               ` Benjamin Thery
2008-03-20 14:38                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-03-19 23:31       ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-03-13 22:07 ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1: "consolechars" hangs on boot Laurent Riffard
2008-03-13 22:38   ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-14  5:26     ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-14 21:06       ` Laurent Riffard
2008-03-15 12:03         ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-16 21:38 ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 build failure of pcsp.c Mariusz Kozlowski
2008-03-28 22:52 ` 2.6.25-rc5-mm1 sparc64 boot problems due to generic pci_enable_resources() Mariusz Kozlowski
2008-03-28 23:10   ` David Miller
2008-03-29  0:44     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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