On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:49:25 -0400
Theodore Tso <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 10:06:14AM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> > No, it actually does violate the spec. Feel free to read it yourself.
> > We are not supposed to do Native PCIe without first successfully executing
> > OSC. Period. If you do, you are violating the spec.
>
> To be fair, we have violated the spec before in order to get crappy
> hardware or to work around crappy ACPI implementations.
> acpi_sleep=s3_bios for example violates the spec, but yet it is the
> only way to get certain laptops to suspend/resume correctly.
>
> The question to ask is whether violating the spec will lead to (a) a
> potential system hang/crash, (b) data corruption, (c) physical harm to
> the device/laptop.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Ted
>
And the answer is most definitely yes to at least a) and c) on specific
hardware I know about.
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