Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] : ACPI : Use RSDT instead of XSDT by adding boot option of "acpi=rsdt"

2009-01-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:17:07PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Monday 12 January 2009 03:16:55 pm Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 03:13:04PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > 99.998% of all machines work fine with the current, spec conform > > > implementation. > > > T

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] : ACPI : Use RSDT instead of XSDT by adding boot option of "acpi=rsdt"

2009-01-12 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Monday 12 January 2009 03:16:55 pm Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 03:13:04PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > On Friday 09 January 2009 13:34:16 Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > If you know of any machines that behave this way, I'd be > > > impressed - and it'll be far easier to

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] : ACPI : Use RSDT instead of XSDT by adding boot option of "acpi=rsdt"

2009-01-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 03:13:04PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Friday 09 January 2009 13:34:16 Matthew Garrett wrote: > > If you know of any machines that behave this way, I'd be > > impressed - and it'll be far easier to dmi whitelist them than the other > > way around. > What do you mean

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] : ACPI : Use RSDT instead of XSDT by adding boot option of "acpi=rsdt"

2009-01-12 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Friday 09 January 2009 13:34:16 Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:16:15PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > IMO this cannot generally be done, because chances are high that machines > > which do not support Windows likely will break. > > Chances are high that a machine which d