Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
Some BIOSs erroneously reverse the _PRT SourceName and the
SourceIndex. Detect and repair this problem. MS ACPI also allows
and repairs this problem, thus ACPICA must also.
It would be great to have an interface to report this as a BIOS defect.
Something like:
FIRMWARE_BUG_ON(FIRM_WARN, "erroneously reversed the _PRT source_name", ACPI_
Bug);
FIRMWARE_BUG_ON(severity, description, component);
Yes, please.
I'd also like HARDWARE_BUG_ON(), with similar usage.
With all the preload-linux-on-foo project, we have some chance to make
BIOS vendors fix their stuff if we can easily diagnose errors in
there.
also we can tie this to kerneloops.org to make a list of top known firmware/hardware bugs, seperate from the kernel code bugs
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