[ltp] Re: [RESEND] [PATCH 2/3] Introduce acpi_root_table=rsdt boot param and dmi list to force rsdt

Matthew Garrett linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:49:30 +0100


On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 October 2008 16:29:56 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > How? We *know* we're deviating from the behaviour of Windows here.
> Matthew, there is no solution to stick to the Windows behaviour.
> Even if hundreds of machines are affected, you have still not yet come up with 
> a generic solution, but try to block the fix.

You're the one asserting that Windows behaves in a certain way. I'm 
asking you to justify that assertion. The information from that test 
allows us to determine whether a static table is the best we can do or 
not.

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