On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:48:20PM +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:09:35 +0100 > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We've made a huge number of workarounds for buggy DSDT > > implementations. > > Of course, I myself used a custom DSDT for my laptop. But I was saying > that these workarounds generally do not belong to the kernel realm. Of course they do. Nothing else is going to fix them up. > This isn't the regular "Pentium F00F bug" stuff; instead bugs in DSDTs > consist of compiling issues, non-standard compliant, plainly bad > code, Windows-only stuff, which can all be unique for every model of a > laptop for example. While the kernel may be able to get around some of > that stuff, the kernel won't have any Asus, Acer etc. specific > workarounds. Windows doesn't have any Asus/Acer/whatever workarounds either. We just need to be compatible with the Windows implementation. There's a minority of cases where that isn't good enough, but almost every DSDT issue can (and should) be handled by Linux if the machine works under Windows. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
