From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: jhf@rivenstone.net (Joseph Fannin)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DMI patch for broken Dell laptop
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:34:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020313093423.5e0daba1.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020312200948.GA32040@rivenstone.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020312100225.2415c8c6.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20020312200948.GA32040@rivenstone.net>
Hi Joseph,
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:09:48 -0500 jhf@rivenstone.net (Joseph Fannin) wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:02:25AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Marcelo, Linus,
> >
> > This adds DMI recognition for anohter broken Dell laptop BIOS (BIOS
> > version A12 on the Insiron 2500).
>
> I think this problem exists for all i2500 BIOS versions > A06. (I
> have such a machine, and access to the BIOS versions back to A08 if
> there is something specific I can test for -- that APM power status
> worked with revision A06 is just heresay.)
Thanks for the offer. The way to test this is to install each BIOS version,
boot into Linux (preferably in single user mode :-)) and then cat /proc/apm.
If you get an OOPS with then it probably has this problem. The send
the BIOS versions to us and we will add them to the black list.
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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2002-03-11 23:02 Stephen Rothwell
2002-03-12 20:09 ` Joseph Fannin
2002-03-12 22:34 ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
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