Sven Luther writes: > Euh, it seems to me more that the hardware has a bug which causes > normal operation to damage it. > > As thus, i think that any damage done would be under the > responsability of the manufacturer to repare or fix. This seems to > be both the position of Bastian and Maximilian, and it seems > reasonable. > > So, users of such hardware, please bother your vendor to either > exchange it for a not broken one, or at least provide a bios upgrade > which fixes the brokeness.
No, the problem is not in the BIOS, it is in the kernel and it is described at length in the upstream bug report. If I understand this description correctly, the kernel is not compliant with the ACPI specification in that it handles all ACPI events in a single thread, whereas the ACPI spec only says that the *interpreter* must be single-threaded. Also, there is a deadlock situation in the kernel which is clearly a kernel, not BIOS, bug. -- Ludovic Brenta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
