On 10/09/2015 03:02 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Thursday, October 08, 2015 05:05:00 PM Al Stone wrote: >> On 10/08/2015 04:50 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> On Thursday, October 08, 2015 02:32:15 PM Al Stone wrote: >>>> On 10/08/2015 02:41 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>>>> On Thursday, October 08, 2015 10:37:55 PM Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>>>>> On Thursday, October 08, 2015 10:36:40 AM Al Stone wrote: >>>>>>> On 10/08/2015 05:44 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote: >>>>>>>> On 10/08/2015 11:21 AM, kernel test robot wrote: >>>>>>>>> FYI, we noticed the below changes on >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git >>>>>>>>> master >>>>>>>>> commit 7494b07ebaae2117629024369365f7be7adc16c3 ("ACPI: add in a >>>>>>>>> bad_madt_entry() function to eventually replace the macro") >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> [ 0.000000] ACPI: undefined MADT subtable type for FADT 4.0: 127 >>>>>>>>> (length 12) [snip....]
>> In the meantime, I'll poke the spec folks on the use of reserved subtable IDs >> in the MADT and see what the consensus is there. It may just be a matter of >> clarifying the language in the spec. > > One additional question to ask is what checks have been present in the OSes > and what they do if they see a reserved MADT subtable ID. If they haven't > been > doing anything so far, I'm afraid this particular train may be gone already. It may be gone. The silence so far is deafening :). >> It's also on my plate to really dig into an ACPI test suite and see about >> building something really robust for that -- this can be added as an example. >> I'll see if I have time to send in a patch for FWTS, too, which is pretty >> good about capturing such things. > > Sounds good! > > Thanks, > Rafael > Let me know if I need to send the patch to fix the regression elsewhere; it dawned on me long after I sent it that this may not be the right place for it to go... -- ciao, al ----------------------------------- Al Stone Software Engineer Linaro Enterprise Group al.st...@linaro.org ----------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
