On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 11:24:16AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > > > PS: > > > See commit message, Windows is not affected as it doesn't > > > clear GPE status bits during ACPI initialization > > > (at least the one version I've tested with, and I won't bet > > > on this with other versions or staying this way) > > > > So I am saying linux should match windows. Clearing GPE > > is a bad idea as you then miss events. > > I'd say it depends on if guest OS is able to handle hot[un]plug > at boot time when it enables GPE handlers (or any other time). > (My point of view here, it's a guest OS policy and management > layer should know what installed guest is capable of and what > quirks to use with it) > > I'll try to send a kernel patch to remove GPEx.status clearing, > though it might be more complex than it seems, > hence I'm quite sceptical about it.
In the world of ACPI, windows is basically the gold standard, whatever it does linux has to do ;) -- MST
