On Saturday 18 April 2009 05:51:42 Len Brown wrote: > From: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> > > Executing BIOS code paths not exercised by Windows > tends to get Linux into trouble. Where do we know Windows does not use them? Is that confirmed by a Windows developer or has this been tried with KVM? For the latter, it could be that these are only called under certain circumstances. > However, if a system does benefit from _GTS or _BFS, > acpi.gts=1 an acpi.bfs=1 are now available to enable them. If the systems works better it's probably a good idea to add that patch, I'd just like to know how sure we can be that Windows never calls these. Thanks, Thomas > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13041 -- 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