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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi="Linux"
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:50:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080114015009.GA2317@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080114003553.GA1698@srcf.ucam.org>

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:35:54AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> No. This breaks on the R50e, at least - I suspect it'd also have 
> problems on any nvidia based machines, but I don't have one to hand at 
> the moment. It can be set at runtime already.

Just to clarify this further, in the relatively near-term future we're 
not going to want the low-level ACPI code to do anything video-related 
on a lot of hardware. The in-kernel modesetting code for Intel machines 
will be able to handle this significantly more effectively.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-14  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-12  2:23 Lenovo ThinkPads need acpi_osi="Linux" Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-12  9:16 ` Len Brown
2008-01-12 20:23   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-13 16:58   ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-13 23:41     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-14  0:35       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-14  1:50         ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-01-14  1:57           ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-14  2:03             ` Matthew Garrett
2008-01-14 13:06               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-01-12 15:49 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-14  0:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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