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
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
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
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
> > >In such case the boot option of "acpi=rsdt" is provided so that
> > > RSDT is tried instead of XSDT table when the system can't work well.
>
> Great, now we still need a dmi blacklist with machines which are known
> broken. Then we are at the patchset I posted about a year ago -> scnr.
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 does not support Windows uses 64 bit
> addresses and leaves the 32
On Friday 09 January 2009 11:59:28 Len Brown wrote:
> > > >In such case the boot option of "acpi=rsdt" is provided so that
> > > > RSDT is tried instead of XSDT table when the system can't work well.
> >
> > Great, now we still need a dmi blacklist with machines which are known
> > broken. Then
On Friday 09 January 2009 07:35:33 Len Brown wrote:
> applied
>
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> Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
>
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Zhao Yakui wrote:
> > From: Zhao Yakui
> >
> > On some boxes there exist both RSDT and XSDT table. But unfortunately
> > sometimes there exists the followi
