Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:09:35 +0100 | | From | Matthew Garrett <> | | Subject | Re: dsdt buggy acpi |
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:25:55AM +0300, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
> Just one note here: DSDTs have nothing to do with the kernel. This is > just broken firmware. The most one can do _in-kernel_ is blacklist some > functionality or create a workaround, but this only happens for widely > used stuff. Broken DSDTs aren't widely used stuff, they are written by > the machine's vendor (the laptop's manufacturer for example, but this > could be different for desktops) and differ a lot from one machine to > another.
We've made a huge number of workarounds for buggy DSDT implementations.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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