On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:49:25 -0400 Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:06:14AM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > No, it actually does violate the spec. Feel free to read it yourself. > > We are not supposed to do Native PCIe without first successfully executing > > OSC. Period. If you do, you are violating the spec. > > To be fair, we have violated the spec before in order to get crappy > hardware or to work around crappy ACPI implementations. > acpi_sleep=s3_bios for example violates the spec, but yet it is the > only way to get certain laptops to suspend/resume correctly. > > The question to ask is whether violating the spec will lead to (a) a > potential system hang/crash, (b) data corruption, (c) physical harm to > the device/laptop. > > Regards, > > - Ted > And the answer is most definitely yes to at least a) and c) on specific hardware I know about. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/