Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ACPI Video: Ignore devices that aren't present in hardware

From: Matthew Garrett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:16:43 +0100

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 06:15:11PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Thursday 03 July 2008 18:08:22 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 06:05:51PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > > Can these two go to linux-next or -mm, pls.
> >
> > Not until the opregion code is merged, no.
> Why?

Because it's entirely plausible that it'll break existing systems.

> Try the next patch, it works for the T61.
> These IGD parts could take quite a while still, while Toshibas and others
> remain broken (and T61 poke on wrong hardware which could cause
> all kind of badness).

The code's written and works, it just has a 750ms latency for reasons I 
don't understand.

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Matthew Garrett | [email-masked]