On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, 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? > 2) Does the system in question require a BIOS upgrade under Windows for this > issue? > > 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. 3) Did the vendor issue an O.S. "driver workaround"? If so, it means we add a *quirk*, and not that we hose ACPI for everyone else. > 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. But it means we need to limit the damage these nasty fixes can do to others. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- 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
