Comment 175 for bug 1283589

(In reply to Dennis Jansen from comment #151)
> > As for adding another boot parameter, my personal opinion is that it's not
> > necessary since we have a simple user space program which can be used to
> > check if systems are affected. That is, I can't really think of a situation
> > where the user space program couldn't work just as well as a stop-gap
> > measure until other hardware was added to the table.
>
> Well, the issue with the user space program is currently that the EC status
> and data ports may have to be adjusted. At least for non-Samsung system I
> believe they would have to be. On the other hand - shouldn't it be possible
> to detect them automatically? You're right, a user space program might be a
> better way to test if this fixes any issues on different systems if we can
> make it work across different systems.

Maybe we can grab the information from dmesg?
dmesg| grep ACPI | grep GPE