Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel

Ahead of the expected Linux 6.11 stable release today and the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit happening this coming week in Vienna, Intel engineer Rafael Wysocki submitted early the ACPI updates among the other areas of the kernel he oversees as part of the imminent Linux 6.12 merge window...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-ACPI

[Phoronos]

When will this acpi be finally removed ?? Because it is soooo bad.

[fong38]

When will this acpi be finally removed ?? Because it is soooo bad.

And be replaced by what?

[clippy]

And be replaced by what?

The firmware could just drop into System Management Mode every time you change screen brightness or poke random undocumented EC registers to suspend properly. Like back in the good old days when Linux laptop support used to be soo much better, before standardized ACPI interfaces ruined everything /s

[edxposed]

Just buy any Qualcomm laptop, say fk you to ACPI, and "enjoy" DT!

[StefanBruens]

Just buy any Qualcomm laptop, say fk you to ACPI, and "enjoy" DT!

Yeah, because you can just boot any Qualcomm laptop with the distribution of choice ...

> Linux 6.11 Kernel Released With Some Snapdragon X1 Laptop Support

[StefanBruens]

The firmware could just drop into System Management Mode every time you change screen brightness or poke random undocumented EC registers to suspend properly. Like back in the good old days when Linux laptop support used to be soo much better, before standardized ACPI interfaces ruined everything /s

You apparently have not been around in the good old days, when suspend was just hit and miss ...

Also, dropping into SMM has significantly too much overhead, stuttering audio would only be the most obvious breakage.

[elbar]

ACPI was always mess, but saying that tests are required but ACPI non-compliant is problem. But there are stats like on linux-hardware.org for device unsupported and device unsupported type and see that problems are huge, but not so big today.

But saying: apt search intel|grep problems and upload them to issue seems a harassment when linux-hardware.org is not mandatory and ACPI a thing which vendors like because monkey patching on Windows seems not so thing for some consideration to implement when ACPI guide(with test driven development) could help...