Re: Why is it so hard to (get) help on ACPI?

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Matthew Garrett schrieb:
> The kernel's job is to make hardware work. If the hardware works under 
> another OS, then it failing to work in Linux is a bug in Linux. So, yes, 
> the correct place to fix this sort of thing is in the kernel rather than 
> your DSDT.
>
> However, please note that the DSDT is almost entirely irrelevant when it 
> comes to things like suspend/resume. Modifying it is hugely unlikely to 
> make things work there.
Hm, I do not totally agree. Since in some cases you know that a BIOS
update caused the trouble it seems to be likely in my eyes that these
problems could be fixed by DSDT changes. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Greetings, Johannes
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