On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 17:01 +0800, Thomas Renninger wrote: > 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. It is tested by using KVM. And this is tested on windows XP/Vista. IMO this should be consistent with the native windows. > > > 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
