* Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote: > > "BIOS people" are operating in a completely different culture. > > Time to market, hardware workarounds, short-term > > differentiators, secret bootstrap sequences and code compactness > > are king in that space. Code quality is dead last in the list. I > > strongly doubt that given the radically conflicting priorities a > > reasonable dialogue can be established. > > "BIOS people" control stuff like SMM mode. We can workaround some > BIOS problems, but definitely not all of them. > > For servers, I guess Linux has enough of market share that we > could certify known-good servers (and maybe warn against > known-bad). Server space is somewhat less of a problem BIOS quality wise: the design cycles are longer, the features are more complex and the profit margins are higher - which all results in saner practices and more care. They even do server BIOS fixes for Linux. The problem are the "Does it boot Windows? Ship it, forget it, buldoze the factory" kind of desktop operations. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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