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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Justin Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dsdt buggy acpi
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:09:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080702100935.GA699@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080702082555.0959ef2b@linux360.ro>

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:25:55AM +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:

> Just one note here: DSDTs have nothing to do with the kernel. This is
> just broken firmware. The most one can do _in-kernel_ is blacklist some
> functionality or create a workaround, but this only happens for widely
> used stuff. Broken DSDTs aren't widely used stuff, they are written by
> the machine's vendor (the laptop's manufacturer for example, but this
> could be different for desktops) and differ a lot from one machine to
> another.

We've made a huge number of workarounds for buggy DSDT implementations.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-02 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-01  6:39 dsdt buggy acpi Justin Mattock
2008-07-01 14:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-01 16:18   ` Justin Mattock
2008-07-02  5:25     ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-02  6:16       ` Justin Mattock
2008-07-02 10:09       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-07-02 11:48         ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-02 11:55           ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-02 16:30             ` Justin Mattock
2008-07-02 16:35               ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-02 17:37                 ` Justin Mattock
2008-07-04 11:32                   ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2008-07-04 16:23                     ` Justin Mattock
2008-07-04 21:45                       ` Justin Mattock

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