Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can what seems like every machine have a broken BIOS with > respect to apic. At some point do we look at the kernel > implementation and try to fix that instead of saying everybody else > is screwed up.
the fact that firmaware vendors don't care much about bioses quality and standard conformance is a (very) well known fact. they regularly : - adding "extensions" to standards (see the scores of different calls to get memory size or map), - provides broken table (mp, acpi, ...) - broke ressources allocation - ...
