Re: [PATCH v2] acpi: Fix regression where _PPC is not read at booteven when ignore_ppc=0

[Ingo Molnar]

* Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Monday 20 April 2009 12:45:29 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Monday 20 April 2009 07:13:51 Len Brown wrote:
> > > > FYI,
> > > > Thanks to Ebay, I now have a T60:-)
> > > Hmm, Lenovo sold a lot different machines as T60.
> > > I found an acpidump of a T60 here without any _PPC function
> > > at all.
> > > 
> > > > and so i put the DSDT here:
> > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13139
> > > > 
> > > > I'll poke at this in more detail soon...
> > > Ingo, can you place yours somewhere too, please.
> > > This one should be taken into account for _PPC code changes
> > > as it seem to implement some corner case.
> > 
> > Sure, find it attached below.
> > 
> > 	Ingo
> > 
> > DSDT @ 0x7f6e65e7
> >   0000: 44 53 44 54 65 c7 00 00 01 49 4c 45 4e 4f 56 4f  
> ...
> Ingo, did you do a BIOS update in between?
> The DSDT and SSDTs you added do not contain a _PPC function.
> These ACPI tables definitely do not suffer from an initial _PPC
> evaluation.

no, i didnt update anything. I only touch the BIOS if i absolutely 
have to. Was the original analysis wrong then?

	Ingo
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