[ACPI-sppt] DSDT for non laptop

Greetings,

I've recently stumbled across an incompatible IRQ routing behaviour between
ACPI and usbnet (using a CDC device) in vanilla 2.6.0-test5. I was able to
be sure that it's ACPI's fault, as the driver works if I rip ACPI off the
compilation.

The board in question is a ECS K5S7A (something like this, I can confirm
Monday) and the device is an RCA Cablemodem DCM245.

In the meantime, i was playing around with DSDT stuff in an ECS P4VXASD2
with 2.6.0-test6 and managed to get a (buggy) decoded table for this board,
which I've tried to fix (should read: i've tried to get it compiled), and
thought it has not been tested yet, the -test6 ACPI is working ok (so far)
without my intervention, this time with a (clone) RCA DCM235.

Let's hope I can post this data online tomorrow. The first board may be 
addressed Monday, though...

Anyway, i have some questions:
1) While i was looking for info, i found only DSDT's for laptop's (or at 
least most of them). Any special reason? Don't you care about getting ACPI 
to work for desktop's?

2) Do you think that a BIOS upgrade would solve those issues with ECS K5S7A? 
If yes, providing a fixed DSDT would be the same as upgrading the BIOS - in 
ACPI context, of course?

3) Though it's working here (-test6 + ECS P4VXASD2), 'iasl' couldn't decode 
the table without warnings. What does this mean *exactly* ? That my BIOS 
messes up something or it may be 'iasl' fault?

4) If you considered that my BIOS *does* mess up with the DSDT, should I say 
that my BIOS is a buggy one - i mean, does this happen often?

Type back,
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Nuno Tavares
http://nthq.cjb.net/

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