Il 29/10/2013 16:55, BALATON Zoltan ha scritto: > On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> I don't know what I'm talking about. But: > > Neither do I but... > >> - Windows' ACPI parser is super cranky. You could pass in a custom (but >> standardized) ACPI table on the command line (-acpitable) that only >> triggers some warnings in Linux's port of ACPICA, but crashes Windows >> (BSOD). Like, write & compile a simple table to AML, then mess it up >> (eg. Package encoding or some such) with a hex editor. This would take >> some experimentation as well, but searching existing bug reports could >> help. > > This seems evil and fragile (although this can be done without patches > with a command line option only). But instead why not remove/disable > some BIOS functions that Linux doesn't need but Windows relies on? This > seems to be less fragile (although requiring a patch) if it's possible > at all.
Subtly crippling the HPET might work, since Linux will prefer kvmclock. Good luck when users come screaming for support though. Paolo
