Re: Check for BIOS bugs - Original Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/70] ACPICA: Workaround for reversed _PRT entries from BIOS

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Some BIOSs erroneously reverse the _PRT SourceName and the
> > SourceIndex.  Detect and repair this problem. MS ACPI also allows
> > and repairs this problem, thus ACPICA must also.
> 
> It would be great to have an interface to report this as a BIOS defect.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> FIRMWARE_BUG_ON(FIRM_WARN, "erroneously reversed the _PRT source_name", ACPI_ 
> Bug);
> 
> FIRMWARE_BUG_ON(severity, description, component);

Yes, please.

I'd also like HARDWARE_BUG_ON(), with similar usage.

With all the preload-linux-on-foo project, we have some chance to make
BIOS vendors fix their stuff if we can easily diagnose errors in
there.

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