Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:00:05 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Adjust the return value of _REV on x86 |
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 02:53:24PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > On 03/24/2015 01:01 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >Will it? You haven't shipped the firmware that changes this behaviour > >yet. > > > This was posted a few days ago. BIOS A02, it resolves the broken behavior introduced in A01 and Linux. > > It can be flashed in the BIOS F12 boot menu, no Windows or DOS necessary. > > http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=F2PRR&fileId=3442501672&osCode=WB64A&productCode=xps-13-9343-laptop&languageCode=EN&categoryId=BI > > Anything bought from now forward will have that BIOS version (or something newer).
Sigh. Then yeah, backporting it to stable is probably out - which means you've made it impossible to fix any other systems that have broken _REV behaviour and which would work fine with stable kernels otherwise.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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