Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754017AbYJFSVb (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:21:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752106AbYJFSVW (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:21:22 -0400 Received: from ftp.linux-mips.org ([213.58.128.207]:33814 "EHLO ftp.linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752089AbYJFSVV (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:21:21 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1795 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:21:21 EDT Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:54:15 +0100 (BST) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" cc: Linus Torvalds , Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Len Brown , Jason Vas Dias , Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 ACPI: Blacklist two HP machines with buggy BIOSes (Re: 2.6.27-rc8+ - first impressions) In-Reply-To: <200810061915.11936.rjw@sisk.pl> Message-ID: References: <20081005183603.GA3263@amd.corenet.prv> <200810061159.30103.rjw@sisk.pl> <200810061915.11936.rjw@sisk.pl> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) 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: 590 Lines: 15 On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > It appears that the buggy BIOS code has been copy-pasted to the entire range of > machines, for no good reason. The DSDT is specific to the chipset -- the ATI/AMD SB400 southbridge in this case -- there is no need to change it for any changes in the surrounding hardware components. Maciej -- 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/