Re: dsdt buggy acpi

Matthew Garrett
2008-07-02T10:10:18Z

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.

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