Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > Rony, Linux depends very little on the BIOSes to tell it what hardware > it has. AFAIK it depends on the BIOS only for bootstrapping. > Everything else is taken care by the kernel. And yes, there are a lot > of retarded BIOSes compiled using the MS compiler but then we can't > help it. ACPI support sucks on most machines because of such BIOSes > but then we have to work around it and thats exactly what Linux > attempts to do. > > We work around it but is the BIOS not the culprit in such cases? I am not saying that GNU won't load on these machines. Its just a painful experience on such boards. ;)
-- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
