On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 20:02 +0800, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:57:11AM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > Does it make sense to add this as a separate function, searching for > a > > physical PCI device for an ACPI device may pop up more often in the > > future? This is a kind of _STA (present or not) function for PCI > ACPI > > devices then. > > No, I don't think this can be done generically - _ADR for a SATA > device > has a format that looks similar to the one for PCI devices, for > instance. I think you need to have knowledge of the specific device > type. > > > This has been tested on a Dell 610 only then? > > This sounds like an older machine, I wonder whether the video driver > is > > useful on this one at all and whether Windows had to check whether > the > > devices are present also... > > Also on an HP 2510p. I suspect that the Windows behaviour is to leave > this up to the graphics driver rather than handling it in the core. > Toshiba seem to have implemented the complete spec for some time, but > several other vendors only implemented the section for display output > switching and obtaining the EDID. > > > Please tell me if you have tested more machines, I try to give it a > test > > on a Toshiba, Lenovo and whatever I find with a Vista capable BIOS > (IMO > > this should be the most important criterion for finding the devices, > I > > doubt older Windows Versions made much use of ACPI graphics devices) > as > > soon as I find some time... > > Yes, I've tested it on some other machines - the HP is the only one > I've > tested with a designed for Vista badge, but it should be correct in > these cases as well. > I've tested it on a T61 and it works. I asked Julian to test it on a Toshiba Satellite A100-87. Please refer to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9614 Thanks, Rui - 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
