From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 06:55:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 06:55:05 -0400 Received: from f00f.stub.clear.net.nz ([203.167.224.51]:48644 "HELO metastasis.f00f.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 06:54:56 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:54:52 +1200 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Alan Cox Cc: Pavel Roskin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ACPI + Promise IDE = disk corruption :-((( Message-ID: <20010623225451.A4960@metastasis.f00f.org> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 11:16:01PM +0100 X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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