On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:18:56PM -0500, Jerone Young wrote: > I could agree, but the only issue is if you go to the thinkpad-acpi or > ibm-acpi mailing list they would probably disagree as there have been > updates to the bios in the past required for proper functionality of > Thinkpads ;-) .. the bios update methods have not changed since then for > Thinkpads. If another OS works, and if Linux can be made to work without impairing the functionality of working machines, then Linux should be made to work. Always. Updating the BIOS should be limited to cases where it's impossible to fix things up in the OS. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
