From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:03:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:03:39 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com ([204.127.202.63]:59571 "EHLO sccrmhc03.attbi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:03:38 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:18:36 -0800 From: John Wendel To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Query about SIS963 Bridges Message-Id: <20030401191836.40ff4b5f.jwendel10@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <1049208265.19703.14.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <1049208265.19703.14.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Organization: WizardControl X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01 Apr 2003 15:44:26 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > > > 2.4.20 slackware 9.0 bare.i works with the PCI NIC and PCI ATA card > > (no acpi in this kernel) > > > > is ACPI the problem with this chipset ? > > It might be. I don't have time to find out and SiS clearly don't care > about their customers any more > ob IANAL ... It seems to me that if SIS has provided the chipset docs to Microsoft, then a polite note from Redhat legal that mentions "RESTRAINT OF TRADE" might work wonders. Perhaps Alan could get the RH lawyers involved. Regards, John