On 06/28/2010 11:37 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I can guarantee to you that a generic Windows install does not have a >> quirk for an IBM PoS system released years after that CD was pressed. The system in question is very old, any current Windows release is newer than that. >> The relevance is that if Windows works without a quirk, then somewhere >> our behaviour diverges from that of Windows and it's likely that other >> machines are also hit by the same issue. Users of those systems may not >> have a support contract with a commercial Linux vendor and may just >> decide to use Windows instead, so there's an incentive for us to >> determine if that's the case and fix Linux's behaviour to match Windows >> rather than to just quirk over it. > > Exactly, this seems like a pretty obvious failure, so either IBM's > testing on this machine under Windows was hopelessly inadequate and it > is broken there too, or else Windows is doing something different and > maybe we should be doing the same thing.. The answer I got is "it works there with a driver" whatever it means (I'm no expert on windows drivers and have no idea what they can do and what quirks can be implemented that way). regards, -- js suse labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
