acpi_cpu: _PDC vs _OSC
Nate Lawson
nate at root.org
Wed Feb 3 20:46:53 UTC 2010
Andriy Gapon wrote:
> What do you think about changing logic of evaluating _PDC and _OSC for Processor
> object in acpi_cpu_attach?
> It seems that later versions of ACPI standard deprecate _PDC in favor of _OSC.
> Although, in practice they seem to be present or not present together, sometimes
> _PDC being only a wrappper around _OSC. There are still, of course, systems with
> only _PDC present. I assume that there are systems with only _OSC too.
>
> I would like to change the order, so that _OSC evaluation is attempted first and
> only if it fails then proceed with _PDC.
>
This is fine with me. When I first implemented this stuff, _PDC was
barely public and I had to guess at some of the bits.
--
Nate
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