Re: redhat comment about intel not taking patches?

Dave Jones
2003-02-13T11:11:55Z

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..

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