Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: commit 7e92b4fc34 - x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices - broke my serial console | Date | Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:34:32 -0600 |
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On Tuesday 24 July 2007 02:13:49 pm Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > - Linux enumerates CPUs with the MADT; I think Windows uses the ACPI > > namespace. Sometimes there are multiple MADTs, and sometimes Linux > > uses the wrong one. > > Color me skeptical. I think we would have bug reports if we were really > getting this wrong a lot of the time.
We do have bug reports, like http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465 Not very many, but enough that I'd like to get to the root cause.
> You seem to be missing that ignoring BIOS is often a VERY GOOD thing, > that has served us well many many times in the past.
I can see that I'm not going to win this argument :-)
But I would like to find and fix the problem with Sebastien's machine, because the patch does fix real problems with IRDA and I think the fix for Sebastien is likely to fix other PNP issues.
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