On 01/05/2010 10:26 AM, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: >> >> Why assume it is a buggy *new* BIOS rather than a buggy *old* BIOS? > > Well, this is the same as with CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR. But yeah, I've also > thought about it, but then *I* really don't know how many such broken BIOSes > are there in the wild. And how many of them are new enough. > > Also, I think we could push the year even more up, say, to 2009. On the > assumption that such new hardware which can't do BOOT_KBD is only being > produced now (late 2009). Better err on the safe side? > 2006-ish seems like a reasonable cutoff to me. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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
