linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.7-rc1 (nouveau_bios

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Message-ID: <20121021144908.GC22587@joi.lan>
Date:	Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:49:08 +0200
From:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Heinz Diehl <htd@...tha.org>,
	Martin Peres <martin.peres@...ri.fr>,
	Heinz Diehl <htd@...cy-poultry.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Paweł Sikora <pawel.sikora@...k.net>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.7-rc1 (nouveau_bios_score oops).

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 07:38:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Marcin Slusarz
> <marcin.slusarz@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > This looks like ACPI bug...
> 
> I'm _shocked_ to hear that firmware would be fragile.
> 
> Anyway, here's the #1 thing to keep in mind about firmware:
> 
>  - firmware is *always* buggy.

I know. But this bug is not about broken firmware. It's about Linux kernel
ACPI implementation, which (I think) wrongly interprets ACPI script.

Marcin
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