> >The BIOS bug workaround mistakenly got disabled > >when we followed the ACPI specification more closely > >by ignoring OS updates to that bit. > > Not exactly. ACPICA has always preserved the SCI_EN bit. Linux apparently has a "linux-only" patch to ACPICA that disables this. > > The recent version of ACPICA change the #define enough such that the patch no longer works. "We" here means Linux, and thus the description is accurate. The fact is that in 2.6.29 Linux had ACPI_PM1_CONTROL_PRESERVED_BITS 0x0200 and when "we" updated it to 0x201 via the ACPICA update, the workaround in the Linux resume code became a NOP. -Len -- 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
