Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:40:21 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Check for BIOS bugs - Original Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/70] ACPICA: Workaround for reversed _PRT entries from BIOS |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >>> Some BIOSs erroneously reverse the _PRT SourceName and the >>> SourceIndex. Detect and repair this problem. MS ACPI also allows >>> and repairs this problem, thus ACPICA must also. >> It would be great to have an interface to report this as a BIOS defect. >> >> Something like: >> >> FIRMWARE_BUG_ON(FIRM_WARN, "erroneously reversed the _PRT source_name", ACPI_ >> Bug); >> >> FIRMWARE_BUG_ON(severity, description, component); > > Yes, please. > > I'd also like HARDWARE_BUG_ON(), with similar usage. > > With all the preload-linux-on-foo project, we have some chance to make > BIOS vendors fix their stuff if we can easily diagnose errors in > there.
also we can tie this to kerneloops.org to make a list of top known firmware/hardware bugs, seperate from the kernel code bugs >
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