On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 07:20:39PM +0200, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > Dne 08. 04. 21 v 18:22 Mark Brown napsal(a): > > So if the information provided through the driver is too generic then we > > should ideally be fixing those drivers/systems to do something sensible. > > For the DT systems the generic cards have properties that let the system > > just specify names directly so it will just be a case of setting them > > properly and it should just be the x86 systems that are a problem. ACPI > > is a bit of a lost cause here, most of the systems aren't interested in > > supporting Linux in the first place and the idioms there aren't great, > > but for DT it's reasonably tractable to push back on people if there's > > issues and it's much more scalable to do that than telling individual > > users to do that. > DT works only partially. Also, you need the DT compiler to change something, > it's easier to overwrite things in the booted system. The user experience is > lower with DT. TBH I think the ship sailed on user experience no matter what we do here :) In any case no disagreement that it's useful to have some way to do this at runtime for systems where it's not possible to update the firmware for whatever reason.
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
