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Date:      Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:24:36 +0200
From:      Alberto Villa <avilla@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>, mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell acpi_video patch
Message-ID:  <CAJp7RHbQ6o%2B7q_=FaG%2BQc3E=J6gxy1mexc%2BzDoBEtGcoqgGQ9g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201210191334.38712.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <20121005215316.GA38707@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <201210121006.17276.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAJp7RHZ69okYaTXsqjkGX%2BOzoAZWNTNc1Qip%2BMof3DkLD0SVDA@mail.gmail.com> <201210191334.38712.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:34 PM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I considered that, but 1) it wouldn't help your laptop, and 2) the ACPI 3.0b
> spec where bit 31 is added specifically states (in the Note 3 I included in
> my prior e-mail) that 0x110 is the only valid legacy ID.

Sure, it wasn't about my laptop, but a general consideration; also
spec 5.0 lists only 0x0110, so it's better to stick to the spec as you
say. By the way, I think the name of devices is not used anywhere
(apart for an X.Org piece of code which I'm going to patch), so it's
not important.
-- 
Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla@FreeBSD.org>
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla



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