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 ACPI > > namespace. Sometimes there are multiple MADTs, and sometimes Linux > > uses the wrong one. > > Color me skeptical. I think we would have bug reports if we were really > getting this wrong a lot of the time.
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. Bjorn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
