linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add DMI quirk for Intel DP55KG mainboard

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Message-ID: <4B42B3FD.7000608@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:37:33 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>
CC:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Christian Hofstaedtler <ch@...a.at>,
	x86@...nel.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	bruce.w.allan@...el.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add DMI quirk for Intel DP55KG mainboard

On 01/04/2010 06:15 PM, Robert Hancock wrote:
> 
> Think you mean 2001, Vista was 2006..
> 
> I'm assuming that Windows is using ACPI reset these days, so presumably
> that's what we should be doing by default, and blacklisting machines
> where that doesn't work, rather than the reverse..

Using a DMI cutoff year in the mid-2000's seems like it would make sense.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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