Re: [ACPI] acpi-20020503-2.4.18 + Sony FX-501

[Ducrot B. <du...@po...>]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 11:42:40AM -0700, Carl Thompson wrote:
> I tried calling Sony a while ago about getting a BIOS with fixed ACPI
> tables and they said that they only do updates as Windows updates.  When
> I pointed out that fixes to ACPI installed as patches to Windows don't
> help people like me who don't use Windows very often they said that they
> don't support Linux and that was the end of the conversation.  One of
> these days I'll see if I can figure out if Windows is using different
> ACPI tables than those in the BIOS and if so figure out if there's a way
> to dump them so I can try them under Linux.
> 

To be more precise:
I have the same trouble of you.  I have a Toshiba, and I have bug
reported them, with the minimal fix for a working implementation
of this machine.  And I still waiting their responses.

What I mean was somewhat ironical to try to get some bugfixes from
OEMs.

Note that Toshiba is one of the founder of ACPI...
Note also that Phoenix that made this buggy BIOS is is one of the founder of ACPI...

Even the processor and the host controller was made by one of the founder of ACPI...
(well, for this last sentence, I doubt they have made the BIOS).

In that situation, if ACPI does not work for me if I didn't
make at least an override of the DSDT table, I really
not be so surprised that ACPI does not work for other peoples.

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