On Tuesday, 2 of December 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > >> ASUSTek keeps feeding us with broken ECDT tables, which are very hard to workaround. > >> So, we end up always checking that ECDT from ASUS has the same info as DSDT, and > >> bark otherwise. > > > > I wish we would do more of that, AND printk "BIOS BUG" and "FIRMWARE BUG" > > everytime we activate any quirk or bug due to something we are completely > > sure to be a vendor firmware screw-up. > I've talked to several Taiwanese notebook BIOS writers lately, and they all seem to > know only one thing -- if Windows boots, BIOS is ok. So we might write huge banners in > neon letters -- it will not work... At least the users may notice and hopefully they will buy from another vendor next time ... Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
