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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.21
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 22:51:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702072251.42413.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702080055.33939.a1426z@gawab.com>

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 16:55, Al Boldi wrote:
> Len Brown wrote:
> > ACPICA Core version 2070126 simplifies the ACPI table manager
> > code by consolidating multiple table definitions into one.
> > It also saves memory by mapping the tables where the BIOS provides them
> > rather than copying them into the kernel.
> 
> Thanks for the update, but does it fix the ISA VGA STR-regression in 2.6.20?

Unlikely.
But I'm not aware of an ISA VGA STR-regression in 2.6.20, so I can't really say.
In general, VGA STR issues are related to the BIOS and video drivers
and have nothing to do with ACPI support itself.

> Also, is there some dependency that requires a display card to be present for 
> STR to work?

ACPI doesn't care if you have VGA or not.

-Len

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-08  3:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-07 21:55 Al Boldi
2007-02-08  3:51 ` Len Brown [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-07 19:18 Len Brown
2007-02-09 23:09 ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-10  1:24   ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-02-10  3:34     ` Matthew Garrett
2007-02-10  1:58   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-11 19:35     ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-11 19:48       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-14 12:58         ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-10  4:27   ` Len Brown
2007-02-22 15:53     ` Pavel Machek
2007-02-26  9:25       ` Zhang Rui
2007-02-10  8:27 ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-02-10 12:07   ` Holger Macht
2007-02-10 15:52     ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-02-10 16:39       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-02-10 17:02         ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-02-10 16:59       ` Ismail Dönmez

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