I opened a problem report against the spec about a month ago on this subject -- to remove _GTS and _BFS from the ACPI spec. bob > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-acpi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-acpi- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rafael J. Wysocki > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 2:39 PM > To: Len Brown > Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux- > acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Lin, Ming M; hpa@xxxxxxxxx; x86@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH] gts and bfs fixes (v3). > > On Tuesday, May 08, 2012, Len Brown wrote: > > Ugh. > > > > I think instead we should go the other way and simply delete the code > > for _GTS and _BFS support. > > > > The evidence is that while it is documented in the ACPI spec, no OS > > implements it -- for when we tried it, we found some systems that > > shipped AML that doesn't work. > > Well, we can still remove it ... > > > ps. yes, we should also petition the ACPI authors to remove _GTS and > > _BFS from an upcoming revision. > > Oh, yes, I totally agree. :-) > > Thanks, > Rafael > -- > 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 -- 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
