From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757227AbYGDQXn (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:23:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753809AbYGDQXe (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:23:34 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.240]:13924 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753489AbYGDQXd (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:23:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=M7rPNeDTNe4YY/uoQRKKaBLqmg7ZqKblJgUd08Qy7+enZomWRSMbZ71b3CY9tYwb1T lIU6WBG2IPPwsx8P1/YfpS1YIo3AeSqcfJal+BusvTltd6C8zHjR3Cq+AkEihDkOskZ6 VhIuT757SSJrVb01i9ZabYa/GR/J2A4ydwJCk= Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:23:32 +0000 From: "Justin Mattock" To: "Alexey Starikovskiy" Subject: Re: dsdt buggy acpi Cc: "Matthew Garrett" , "Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu" , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "ACPI Devel Maling List" In-Reply-To: <486E0A64.5020903@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080702082555.0959ef2b@linux360.ro> <20080702100935.GA699@srcf.ucam.org> <20080702144820.29f7d43d@linux360.ro> <20080702115527.GA3396@srcf.ucam.org> <20080702163510.GA8912@srcf.ucam.org> <486E0A64.5020903@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Justin Mattock wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Matthew Garrett >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:30:11PM +0000, Justin Mattock wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Hello; what info is supplied with EFI i.g. I'm using a macbook pro. >>>> After looking at: >>>> http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php I was unable to locate >>>> anything with apple, or at least >>>> couldn't find the manufacture number. >>>> If somebody has already done this, I was wondering if it would be O.K. >>>> if I can attached my dsdt.dsl with the errors, >>>> and my explanation of what I changed, just so If I did something >>>> completely wrong >>>> >>> >>> iasl will complain about code that the Linux interpreter will happily >>> accept. If the only reason you've made changes is that iasl complains, >>> then it's unlikely that there's any functional difference as a result. >>> Otherwise, work out which changes fix which Linux bugs and file a bug >>> at bugzilla.kernel.org against acpi. >>> >>> -- >>> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org >>> >>> >> >> Hello; I modified dsdt because iasl was complaining, As a result like >> what you said >> "then it's unlikely that there's any functional difference as a >> result" is probably >> what I'm seeing. As for a bug report I already have one filed. As to >> why I'm messing with >> the dsdt, just trying to isolate the problem with the bug I have >> already filed., or at least >> get a better idea of what is happening. Anyways thanks for the info. >> regards; >> >> > > For difference, you should look for "Darwin", this is how MacOS X identifies > itself to hardware. > > > Regards, > Alex. > Hello; So adding acpi_osi=Darwin will work for boot parameter. Also I wanted to apologize If I pissed you off, I didn't quite understand what was really happening, and now after looking into the scenario, I think I need to find out what is going on with my GPE's, this way you're detector(ec.c) won't be going off so frequently. regards; -- Justin P. Mattock