On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 01:34:42PM -0400, Len Brown wrote: > Matt, > What shall we do with your GPE block driver patch? > Will any systems need this? Hi Len, I don't work at HP any more, so I no longer have access to systems which use this. However, we have a horse-and-cart situation here -- if Linux doesn't support GPE blocks, BIOS vendors won't be able to use them. Since they are specified in the ACPI standard, we probably *ought* to support them. > Luming, and then Rui refreshed it a while ago. > It could use another refresh at this point... > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2934 I'll have to see if my new employer is willing to let me spend time on it ;-) -- "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
