On Tuesday 24 July 2007 02:13:49 pm Jeff Garzik wrote:Bjorn Helgaas wrote:- Linux enumerates CPUs with the MADT; I think Windows uses the ACPIColor me skeptical. I think we would have bug reports if we were really getting this wrong a lot of the time.
namespace. Sometimes there are multiple MADTs, and sometimes Linux
uses the wrong one.
We do have bug reports, like http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465
Not very many, but enough that I'd like to get to the root cause.
You seem to be missing that ignoring BIOS is often a VERY GOOD thing, that has served us well many many times in the past.
I can see that I'm not going to win this argument :-)
But I would like to find and fix the problem with Sebastien's machine,
because the patch does fix real problems with IRDA and I think the fix
for Sebastien is likely to fix other PNP issues.