Update on Linux/Foxconn issue by Ubuntu dev. Matthew Garrett

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/94905.html

by mdemare • 18 years ago

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gm• 18 years ago

Finally, someone agrees with me:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=256636

axod2• 18 years ago

Doesn't it seem entirely wrong that the BIOS has any idea about O/S's to start with?

Completely the wrong way around.

nickb2• 18 years ago

Not only that, but to specifically test for an OS that supposedly they don't care about and give it crap data?!

axod2• 18 years ago

Sure. So it'd be like finding this in a Windows Vista system call...

if (appName.equals("firefox")) { sleep(60); addSomeBugs(); }

orib• 18 years ago

More like, they don't care about it, and accidentally forgot to update a table entry.

This is why Linux lies and says it's Windows to ACPI. I strongly doubt that it's malicious, they just don't care enough to test it and keep it up to date with Linux, so stuff breaks.

wmealing• 18 years ago

I don't think Garrett works for/with ubuntu for some time. See even the tags in the blog.

Update on Linux/Foxconn issue by Ubuntu dev. Matthew Garrett

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