From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ACPI + Promise IDE = disk corruption :-(((
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:54:52 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010623225451.A4960@metastasis.f00f.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106221635230.1575-100000@vesta.nine.com> <E15DZDd-0004Fq-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15DZDd-0004Fq-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:16:01PM +0100
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:16:01PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
ACPI is over complex, new technology. The BIOS stuff is new (and
frequently wrong)
Show my a BIOS that isn't broken.
I'm serious, EVERY SINGLE MACHINE at my disposal of late has had
buggy ACPI tables or worse.
Ironically, many laptops use a Pheonix BIOS who traditionaly have had
terrible QA too --- their bioses APM would only work under Windows95
initially and then later Windows98.
I'm really started to wish the OpenBios folks had more resources
available; the quality of the average BIOS it seems in the last
couple fo years is really bad.
--cw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-23 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-22 21:07 Pavel Roskin
2001-06-22 22:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-23 10:54 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2001-06-22 21:18 Grover, Andrew
2001-06-23 0:30 Grover, Andrew
2001-06-23 8:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-23 10:56 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-06-25 17:38 Grover, Andrew
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