On Tuesday 20 April 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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. Agreed. 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
