Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271344AbUJVPAl (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:00:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271331AbUJVO5V (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:57:21 -0400 Received: from smtp4.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.27]:41077 "EHLO mwinf0407.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271329AbUJVO4v convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:56:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Buggy DSDTs policy ? From: Xavier Bestel To: Onur Kucuk Cc: Olivier Galibert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20041022174154.2ebd2c5c.onur@delipenguen.net> References: <20041022122326.GA69381@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <20041022174154.2ebd2c5c.onur@delipenguen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Message-Id: <1098456935.31003.77.camel@gonzales> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:55:35 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 932 Lines: 27 Le ven 22/10/2004 à 16:41, Onur Kucuk a écrit : > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:23:27 +0200 > Olivier Galibert wrote: > > > What is the policy w.r.t broken DSDTs and the ACPI subsystem? > > Specifically, which of these two options is right: > > > > 1- Provide a non-buggy DSDT to the kernel > > 2- Make the ACPI subsystem tolerant of the bugs > > > > The option 3, have all biosen over the world fixed is a nice fantasy, > > but nothing else. > > > > If 1, we need to put a mechanism for that in the official kernel. > > CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT is included in 2.6.9 But fixed DSDTs are a pain to find, and fixing a buggy DSDT is impossible for a non-hacker. Xav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/