From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Jerone Young <jerone.young@canonical.com>
Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@canonical.com>,
lenb@kernel.org, colin.king@canonical.com,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: DMI init_set_sci_en_on_resume for multiple Lenovo ThinkPads
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:24:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100420172419.GA9719@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271783936.25170.131.camel@laptop>
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:18:56PM -0500, Jerone Young wrote:
> I could agree, but the only issue is if you go to the thinkpad-acpi or
> ibm-acpi mailing list they would probably disagree as there have been
> updates to the bios in the past required for proper functionality of
> Thinkpads ;-) .. the bios update methods have not changed since then for
> Thinkpads.
If another OS works, and if Linux can be made to work without impairing
the functionality of working machines, then Linux should be made to
work. Always. Updating the BIOS should be limited to cases where it's
impossible to fix things up in the OS.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-20 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-20 14:03 [PATCH] ACPI: DMI init_set_sci_en_on_resume for multiple Lenovo ThinkPads Alex Chiang
2010-04-20 14:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-20 14:54 ` Alex Chiang
2010-04-20 16:56 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-20 17:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-20 17:18 ` Jerone Young
2010-04-20 17:24 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-04-20 19:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-20 17:20 ` Alex Chiang
2010-04-22 20:41 ` Alex Chiang
2010-05-05 20:34 ` Len Brown
2010-05-05 22:42 ` Alex Chiang
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