New ACPI blacklist format

[Nate Lawson]

On Sat, 8 May 2004, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:28:15PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
>
> *snip*
>
> > static struct acpi_table_desc Abit_BP6[] = {
> >     { "FACP", "AWARD", "AWRDACPI", "<=", "30302e31", "", "", "" },
> > };
> > static struct acpi_table_desc AMI_INT[] = {     /* 01/18/00 */
> >     { "FACP", "AWARD", "", "<=", "10", "", "", "" },
> >     { "DSDT", "",      "", "<=", "5",  "", "", "" },
> > };
> > static struct acpi_table_desc Compaq_ViperII[] = {
> >     { "FACP", "COMPAQ", "VIPER II", "<=", "06040000", "PTL", "<=", "000F4240" },
> > };
>
> *snip*
>
> If space is a concern, you can enable (i.e. compile-in) quirks by
> using kernel options, like:
>
> 	options 	ACPI_QUIRK_ABIT_BP6
>
> and
>
> 	#ifdef ACPI_QUIRK_ABIT_BP6
> 	static struct acpi_table_desc Abit_BP6[] = {
> 	    { "FACP", "AWARD", "AWRDACPI", "<=", "30302e31", "", "", "" },
> 	};
> 	#endif
>
> You put all three of them in GENERIC and people can add or remove them
> from their own kernel configuration to fit their needs (and save space).
> If the quirks are in MI files, then this also avoids that i386 quirks
> end up in amd64 or ia64 kernels.

There will be about 100-300 of these.  :)

-Nate