On 05/14/2012 04:19 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 03:08:57PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
On 05/14/2012 02:37 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
What does "Improper BIOS interaction" mean? What's the proper BIOS interaction?
These platforms are not obeying the smbios interface specs for turning on and
off radios. It's not currently expected that the interaction will improve
during the lifetime of these platforms. If it does, then this can be adjusted
to only apply to the BIOS versions before the fix.
Ok, pretty bored of this at this point. If the bios interface is
unreliable then I'll just remove the rfkill support. I'm not going to
continue adding machines to a blacklist some time after users find
things are broken.
Is this just as broken under Windows?
The BIOS interface is reliable on business client (Latitude and Vostro)
hardware.
The outliers of Inspiron and XPS don't seem to follow the interface as
explicitly. It is not broken on Windows. I don't have an understanding why
it's not, but conjecture that it's a different interface being used on these
that I don't have information on yet.
You would be better to only match on Latitude and Vostro and anything else that
people want to opt in via a paramater than to remove the interface entirely IMO.
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*Mario Limonciello*
Linux Engineer
*Dell*| OS Engineering
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