On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 13:49 +0100, Luca Niccoli wrote: > Do you think it would be acceptable to ship a grub 2 hook that appends > acpi_osi="Linux" to the kernel command line if update-grub is run on > an affected model? > I think it is technically feasible and reasonably safe, but I don't > know how late it is to ship something that messes with the boot > system.
I think it would be better to make this a quirk in the kernel, if that's possible. There is an existing blacklist that modifies the kernel's responses to OSI queries. If you can provide the sys_vendor and product_version DMI strings for the affected models then I can add entries there. These DMI strings are visible as files in /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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