Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: APM oops with Dell 5000e laptop | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:17:50 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The kernel works around/ignores/disables other broken hardware or broken > features of otherwise working hardware with black lists. There will be > many *many* of these laptops sold.
And I hope many many of these people demand BIOS upgrades or send them back.
> Is there a way to uniquely identify the affected BIOSes at boot time and
Im looking at one with some pointers from Dell. It won't be in 2.2.18 so its quite likely a fixed BIOS will be out first anyway.
Alan
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