Re: dsdt buggy acpi

[Alexey Starikovskiy]

Justin Mattock wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:30:11PM +0000, Justin Mattock wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Hello; what info is supplied with EFI i.g. I'm using a macbook pro.
> > > After looking at:
> > > http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php I was unable to locate
> > > anything with apple, or at least
> > > couldn't find the manufacture number.
> > > If somebody has already done this, I was wondering if it would be O.K.
> > > if I can attached my dsdt.dsl with the errors,
> > > and my explanation of what I changed, just so If I did something
> > > completely wrong
> > >       
> > iasl will complain about code that the Linux interpreter will happily
> > accept. If the only reason you've made changes is that iasl complains,
> > then it's unlikely that there's any functional difference as a result.
> > Otherwise, work out which changes fix which Linux bugs and file a bug
> > at bugzilla.kernel.org against acpi.
> >
> > --
> > Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >     
>
> Hello; I modified dsdt because iasl was complaining, As a result like
> what you said
> "then it's unlikely that there's any functional difference as a
> result" is probably
> what I'm seeing. As for a bug report I already have one filed. As to
> why I'm messing with
> the dsdt, just trying to isolate the problem with the bug I have
> already filed., or at least
> get a better idea of what is happening. Anyways thanks for the info.
> regards;
>
>   

For difference, you should look for "Darwin", this is how MacOS X 
identifies itself to hardware.


Regards,
Alex.
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