linux-kernel - Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:50:09 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi="Linux"

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:35:54AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> No. This breaks on the R50e, at least - I suspect it'd also have 
> problems on any nvidia based machines, but I don't have one to hand at 
> the moment. It can be set at runtime already.

Just to clarify this further, in the relatively near-term future we're 
not going to want the low-level ACPI code to do anything video-related 
on a lot of hardware. The in-kernel modesetting code for Intel machines 
will be able to handle this significantly more effectively.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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