RE: redhat comment about intel not taking patches?
From: Darren Benham <hidden>
Date: 2003-02-13 02:55:24
Is ACPI going to be able to go mainstream in any of the major releases w/o making some effort to work in non-standard BIOS (read, the BIOSes written directly for Windows)? Is it ever likely that pressure would work against those Bios manufacturers that dont' follow spec? I mean, Compaq is on the list of partners for ACPI and their DSDT's are crap, with asterisks in names and functions returning values that shouldn't, etc. Grover, Andrew said:
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From: Kevin Fenzi [mailto:kevin-+bl/7iUgRMUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org] RedHat is playing with enabling ACPI in their next release. (At least in the beta for the next release: phoebe). Noticed this changelog comment in the phoebe kernel: * Thu Nov 07 2002 Arjan van de Ven [off-list ref] - - remove ACPI again because Intel is unwilling to take patches What patches are they talking about? Is there any way we could fix up the communication breakdown between RedHat/Intel? It would be great if ACPI would work out of the box on my laptop with a RedHat kernel. At a minimum I guess it would require acpi to be able to detect the compaq *PNP stuff and remove the * so the table works.I have been in contact with a number of distributions concerning inclusion of ACPI support. I think the new licensing and some recent source improvements helped a lot to make people feel better about ACPI, but there still are a number of critical bugs that are affecting a significant percentage of systems. These need to be fixed. These have to do with *any* ACPI-related oopses, failure to boot using ACPI, and failure to shutdown cleanly. ACPI is not going to be in the next RH release but we are really pushing to get it in subsequent releases, but we need to fix those critical bugs. Regards -- Andy ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Acpi-devel mailing list Acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-devel
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