RE: redhat comment about intel not taking patches? - Compaq Hardware

Duncan Gibb
2003-02-14T09:23:41Z

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 20:36, Alan Cox wrote:

AC> you may want to go over the advertising for said
AC> laptop and see if it claims to

AC> Support ACPI

AC> If the ACPI tables are wrong (v the specification) then
AC> its very much fraudulent advertising {..} to claim it
AC> supports ACPI IMHO.

I agree, but I think HP should get a reasonable time to make amends
before we go waving the Trades Descriptions Act at them :-) Perhaps one
of the HP employees here could let us know who's actually responsible
for this problem.

Woe betide the firmware manager who doesn't listen to you.

Duncan