Re: [PATCH 16/16] ACPI: add DMI entry to work around another insane Toshiba BIOS

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> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:44:46PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> > From: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5048
> 
> Why are we not making this the default behaviour, perhaps with a boot or 
> config option to disable it if people really can't live with the memory 
> hit?

It looks like only Toshiba Satellite have this flaw.

It would not be fair to every Linux/ACPI system out there
to double ACPI table size because of bugs at Toshiba.

Perhaps we should wild-card and make this the default
for all Toshiba Satellite.  I expect we can do this
simply by leaving the model number off.  eg

- DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Satellite L505D"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Satellite"),

The down-side, of course, is that Satellite's in the future
will continue to pay for the bugs of Satellite's past --
but I'd not lose any sleep over that.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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