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From: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
To: Dave Zarzycki <dave@zarzycki.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.8-ac6] (Yet) Another Sony Vaio laptop with a broken APM...
Date: 18 Aug 2001 01:50:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <998124659.440.15.camel@orca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108171005440.2165-100000@batman.zarzycki.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108171005440.2165-100000@batman.zarzycki.org>

On 17 Aug 2001 10:08:25 -0700, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
> On 17 Aug 2001, Ray Lee wrote:
> > It's looking more and more likely that they're all backwards. Hey, at
> > least they're consistent, right?
> My old Sony PCG-505G does seem to get it right.

Hmm. You may be taken care of by one of the exceptions already in
dmi_scan.c, and it'd be interesting (and useful) to find out. If you've
got a few minutes, could you open up arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c and
either uncomment or add the line:
   #define dmi_printk(x) printk x
after the existing "#define dmi_printk(x)".

With that, upon boot the new kernel will show the BIOS version and date,
which dmesg will show. If they are one of: 

  R0203Z3  08/25/00
  R0203D0  05/12/00
  R0121Z1  05/11/00
  R0208P1  11/09/00

...then in fact your BIOS also gets it wrong, which would be
aesthetically pleasing in a sort of perverted way.

--
Ray Lee  /  Every truth has a context.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-18  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-17 16:43 [PATCH 2.4.8-ac6] (Yet) Another Sony Vaio laptop with a broken APM Ray Lee
2001-08-17 17:08 ` Dave Zarzycki
2001-08-18  8:50   ` Ray Lee [this message]
2001-08-17 17:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-08-18  8:53   ` Ray Lee

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