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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:50:55PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Introduce acpi_root_table=rsdt boot param and dmi list to force rsdt
> > 
> > References: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8246
> > 
> > Blacklist R40e, R51e and T40, T40p, T41, T41p, T42, T42p, R50 and R50p
> > ThinkPads to use the RSDT instead of the XSDT.
> 
> I'm very sceptical about this. All of these machines were released years 
> before Vista, which makes me unsure about the diagnosis that this is 
> something to do with Vista readyness.

I believe you will find stuff broken due to Vista Readyness badly
retro-fitted only on the Z-series and also the T60.

The R51e (BIOS TP-78) does NOT share a BIOS with the T40-T42 or any of the
two R51 base models. The bugzilla bug report really cannot be used against
them.  Thomas, do you have extra data not in the bug report that causes you
to doubt the TP-1R BIOS?

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  Henrique Holschuh