On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:54:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> But the issue here is that on a "legacy PC", we can't just say "ACPI 
> doesn't mention this device, so it can't exist". Because in a legacy PC 
> model, that simply isn't true. All those motherboard devices can easily 
> exist (and do!) even if ACPI/PnP don't mention them.

I think that's true except in the case where the Leading Other OS won't 
use a device unless it's present in ACPI - that kind of enforcement 
tends to concentrate vendors' minds, even if they'd otherwise be busy 
filling data tables with garbage.

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