On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 08:17 +0100, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008 07:58:53 Carlos Corbacho wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 April 2008 11:25:34 Zhao Yakui wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 04:44 -0400, Len Brown wrote: > > > > From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > GPE could try to access EC region, so should not be enabled before > > > > EC is installed > > > > > > It is caused by broken bios if GPE method tries to access EC region > > > before EC is initialized correctly. It is more appropriate to fix this > > > issue by upgrading bios rather than by the patch. > > > And this patch will cause some potential problems. > > > > 1) Does the BIOS in question work under Windows? > > ^^^ > that should be 'not work' For the laptop in bug 9916: Windows can work on the BIOS in question. In fact only warning message is printed for Linux and it won't break anything. (Maybe the warning message also exists on windows. But we can't see them.) > > > 2) Does the system in question require a BIOS upgrade under Windows for > > this issue? > > After the BIOS is upgraded, the warning message disappears on Linux. It is very lucky that we have such a laptop. After the bios is upgraded, the warning message disappears. > > If the answer to both of those is 'no', then the answer is that it's a > > Linux bug, and a patch of some description is appropriate. > > > > Just because there are crappy BIOS's out there, and we'd rather not put in > > nasty fixes, doesn't mean that we shouldn't. > -Carlos -- 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
