From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: redhat comment about intel not taking patches? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:11:55 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20030213121153.E1647@suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from john.cagle-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org on Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:11:26PM -0600 Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" Cc: Darren Benham , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:11:26PM -0600, Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote: > Can you be more specific in your comments regarding Compaq hardware? We > test our ProLiant servers with Linux and ACPI, and our BIOS is designed > for many different operating systems, including Linux, Unix and NetWare. > On the other hand, it is unreasonable to expect that our laptop and > desktop divisions test with Linux ACPI for two big reasons: first, the > Linux OS has a very small share of those markets, and second, Red Hat's > releases don't even have ACPI support. So, Red Hat doesn't include ACPI because it doesn't work on Compaq laptops[1], and Compaq won't test it because Red Hat don't ship it ? Nice catch 22 8-) Dave [1] Among others.. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf