Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754998AbXL1FoQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:44:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751170AbXL1Fn7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:43:59 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:46082 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750762AbXL1Fn6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:43:58 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:41:32 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Robert Hancock cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Carlos Corbacho , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Greg KH , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Len Brown , Andrew Morton , pm list , ACPI Devel Maling List Subject: Re: Suspend code ordering (again) In-Reply-To: <47744291.30100@shaw.ca> Message-ID: References: <4773E9EE.40107@shaw.ca> <200712272100.20282.rjw@sisk.pl> <47744291.30100@shaw.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1151 Lines: 26 On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: > > I doubt they would prefer the later ordering in any way that matters, if the > Windows version they were designed for uses the earlier ordering. Well, I wouldn't say it's abotu "preferring" one over the other. It's very possible that the BIOS writers were *intending* to prefer ACPI 2.0, and it may even be likely that they thought that they wrote it that way, but the real issue is that it has apparently never ever been *tested* that way. So yes, maybe the vendors actually thought they were a good ACPI-2.0 implementation, but if Windows doesn't do the ordering that the 2.0 spec expects, then that is pretty much just a theoretical thing. But yeah, it would be really nice to have this verified some way. Somebody must already know (whether it's a VM person or a BIOS writer, and whether they'd tell us, is obviously another issue). Linus -- 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/