Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think that it is not the BIOS being broken but the code being
> broken. I DO NOT necessarily fault the Linux developers for this
> though, as they are working with limited info and have to reverse
> engineer everything. In my mind it cannot be that the BIOS is
> always broken. if the BIOS is broken, why does it work with the
> other OS.
well it's expected when an os vendor force bioses vendors to switch to
acpi, thus beginning to not care about std pci ressources setting and
the like.
thus alternatives others who still have not yet an acpi subsystem
begin to fail on laptops and the like.
then, the developper who implement an acpi subsystem following the
draft, find out that as usual[1] firmware vendors fscked the
implementation.
always the same story...
some oses vendors can live with a driver per firmware vendor, some
just do not have the ressources for that.
[1] remember pill of ata workaround for hw vendors excentricities, and
the like ...
