Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:04:10 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] Add TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag |
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 05:57:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> And then as I said originally the example given was not even > "unsupported hardware" for an obvious Red Hat definition of the two > because it was actually about firmware combinations on specific boards - > ie it was an unsupported configuration.
The two examples given were:
"a distribution may want to support PPC but not the Power5 chipset, or the e1000e driver but not a card with a specific DeviceID because of known firmware issues."
In both those cases it's specific hardware that's unsupported, not the configuration.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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