On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
I don't know what I'm talking about. But:
Neither do I but...
- Windows' ACPI parser is super cranky. You could pass in a custom (but standardized) ACPI table on the command line (-acpitable) that only triggers some warnings in Linux's port of ACPICA, but crashes Windows (BSOD). Like, write & compile a simple table to AML, then mess it up (eg. Package encoding or some such) with a hex editor. This would take some experimentation as well, but searching existing bug reports could help.
This seems evil and fragile (although this can be done without patches with a command line option only). But instead why not remove/disable some BIOS functions that Linux doesn't need but Windows relies on? This seems to be less fragile (although requiring a patch) if it's possible at all.
Regards, BALATON Zoltan
