Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Enable monitor/mwait on Intel if BIOS hasn'talready

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 05:54:04PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> > We can't trust BIOS authors to get things right. Where we can reliably 
> > fix up things that are broken, we should do so.
> 
> How about if we can get a BIOS fix for this brand new system,
> then we shall not clutter the kernel with a workaround,
> otherwise we shall.

It's a pretty good rule of thumb that if a BIOS bug is present in one 
BIOS it's present in others, but the users will just never notice.

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