Hallo, Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 23:03 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > The good thing is, that with barebones the manufacturer often tries to > > follow the standards a bit more, because in the long run it will make > > it easier for them as far as support etc. is concerned. These > > barebones are sold under various different brandnames, so they like to > > keep this side of possible failures as small as possible. > > Right, but I don't think there's any standard that says laptops must be > usable for low latency or prohibits the BIOS from implementing ACPI via > SMM... > > The only way to be sure is if there were a vendor who sold laptops > certified for low latency. As this probably won't happen (soon) maybe it's indeed best to try to create a kind of whitelist as you suggested. And of course a blacklist, which could create pressure on manufacturers. I guess, not only Linux is affected by a latency-killing BIOS, right? Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
