LXer: Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI

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07-26-2008, 04:41 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,374 Rep:	LXer: Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI Published at LXer: I disassembled my BIOS to have a look around, and while I won't post the results here,I'll tell you what I did find. They have several different tables, a group for Windws XP and Vista, a group for 2000, a group for NT, Me, 95, 98, etc. that just errors out, and one for LINUX. Read More...

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