On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > Hello; what info is supplied with EFI i.g. I'm using a macbook pro. After looking at: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php I was unable to locate anything with apple, or at least couldn't find the manufacture number. If somebody has already done this, I was wondering if it would be O.K. if I can attached my dsdt.dsl with the errors, and my explanation of what I changed, just so If I did something completely wrong I can adjust it, So I can feel at ease knowing that it's correct. regards; -- Justin P. Mattock -- 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
