Linux does not correctly implement the ACPI specification

2006-04-08 Thread Peter Wainwright
Reference: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5534 There has been no significant movement on this bug for months. I can only conclude that the problem is only triggered by a few very sophisticated DSDTs (the HP nx6125 among them) or has remained unrecognized on other platforms. Nonetheless

Re: Linux does not correctly implement the ACPI specification

2006-04-12 Thread Andi Kleen
Peter Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Instead of executing all the GPE and Notify handlers in the single > kacpid thread, we create a pool of worker threads and hand over the > work to them. You do this at boot - this means you waste a lot of memory for this obscure case. Not a good idea.

Re: Linux does not correctly implement the ACPI specification

2006-04-27 Thread Peter Wainwright
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:56 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Peter Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Instead of executing all the GPE and Notify handlers in the single > > kacpid thread, we create a pool of worker threads and hand over the > > work to them. > > You do this at boot - this means