Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:38:53 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alienware acpi problem Message-ID: <20060727173853.GA13115@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <44C8F1DC.8050201@root.org> References: <20060724215014.GA89464@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200607241823.24477.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060725201556.GA97140@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200607261505.38960.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060726192106.GA4693@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <44C7C8DA.3090402@gmail.com> <44C8F1DC.8050201@root.org>
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:03:24AM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > Dana H. Myers wrote: > >Steve Kargl wrote: > >>On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:05:38PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > >>>You have some of the most incompetent BIOS writers I've ever seen > >>>working on your machine I'm afraid. > >>It's a Phoenix BIOS. > > > >Actually, I don't think Phoenix gets all the blame. I believe > >that Phoenix provides a toolkit which board manufacturers customize. > >So it's probably not Phoenix writing the bum ASL you're seeing. > > That's correct. Phoenix produces a tool that has some example ASL. The > Chinese/Taiwanese company that actually makes the laptop (e.g., Compal) > subcontracts out the BIOS customization to an small firm (2 guys) that > bang on it until it boots Windows. Well, given the ASL that I put up at my website, is there any hope of patching it? -- Steve
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