Re: Buggy DSDTs policy ?

[Xavier Bestel]

Le ven 22/10/2004 Ã 16:41, Onur Kucuk a Ãcrit :
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:23:27 +0200
> Olivier Galibert <galibert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > What is the policy w.r.t broken DSDTs and the ACPI subsystem?
> > Specifically, which of these two options is right:
> > 
> > 1- Provide a non-buggy DSDT to the kernel
> > 2- Make the ACPI subsystem tolerant of the bugs
> > 
> > The option 3, have all biosen over the world fixed is a nice fantasy,
> > but nothing else.
> > 
> > If 1, we need to put a mechanism for that in the official kernel.
> 
>  CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT is included in 2.6.9

But fixed DSDTs are a pain to find, and fixing a buggy DSDT is
impossible for a non-hacker.

	Xav

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