On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 03:13:04PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Friday 09 January 2009 13:34:16 Matthew Garrett wrote: > > If you know of any machines that behave this way, I'd be > > impressed - and it'll be far easier to dmi whitelist them than the other > > way around. > What do you mean with "easy"? > > 99.998% of all machines work fine with the current, spec conform > implementation. > There are the two ThinkPads for which the vendor admitted that the BIOS is > broken which work better with the rsdt blacklisted. Two Thinkpads, an entire range of HP workstations, how many others? We have no idea which bugs are being triggered by this. Refusing to fix it because we'll potentially break some machines that may not even exist is not a sensible plan. -- 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
