Re: Linux 3.7-rc1 (nouveau_bios_score oops).

From: Marcin Slusarz
Date: Sun Oct 21 2012 - 10:48:38 EST


On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 07:38:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Marcin Slusarz
> <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This looks like ACPI bug...
>
> I'm _shocked_ to hear that firmware would be fragile.
>
> Anyway, here's the #1 thing to keep in mind about firmware:
>
> - firmware is *always* buggy.

I know. But this bug is not about broken firmware. It's about Linux kernel
ACPI implementation, which (I think) wrongly interprets ACPI script.

Marcin
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