Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:41:54 +0300 | From | Onur Kucuk <> | Subject | Re: Buggy DSDTs policy ? |
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:23:27 +0200 Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com> wrote:
> What is the policy w.r.t broken DSDTs and the ACPI subsystem? > Specifically, which of these two options is right: > > 1- Provide a non-buggy DSDT to the kernel > 2- Make the ACPI subsystem tolerant of the bugs > > The option 3, have all biosen over the world fixed is a nice fantasy, > but nothing else. > > If 1, we need to put a mechanism for that in the official kernel.
CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT is included in 2.6.9
> If 2, I'll start working on patches to make the laptop I play with > work as-is. > > So, which it is?
-- Onur Kucuk Knowledge speaks, <onur.--.-.delipenguen.net> but wisdom listens
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