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Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 09:41:04 -0500 From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com> To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: video: improve quirk check On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote: >> In my machine I think the issue is slightly different, I think _BCM is >> failing, at least until enabling the _DOS thing, but at the end of the >> day it's the same thing for the check; _BQC is always returning the >> same value, and the code above will find that out, regardless of which >> values are tested. >> >> For my particular machine though, I think it's more interesting to >> find out why _BCM is failing before _DOS, and why efaa14c made it >> work. If that is actually the case. > > That depends on how the BIOS+platform is designed and that may change from > one system to another quite a bit. Maybe, but it seems there's at least another ASUS machine with the same behavior, and it seems a lot of ASUS machines behave very similarly. > The only common denominator is what Windows expects (and that unfortunately > depends on the version of Windows too), because that's the functionality > which is likely to have been tested. Anything else is likely to be untested > and therefore most probably buggy. Maybe, or maybe we are doing something wrong. It's worth to try to find that out. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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