24 Mar
2008
24 Mar
'08
2:17 p.m.
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
Rony, Linux depends very little on the BIOSes to tell it what hardware it has. AFAIK it depends on the BIOS only for bootstrapping. Everything else is taken care by the kernel. And yes, there are a lot of retarded BIOSes compiled using the MS compiler but then we can't help it. ACPI support sucks on most machines because of such BIOSes but then we have to work around it and thats exactly what Linux attempts to do.
We work around it but is the BIOS not the culprit in such cases? I am not saying that GNU won't load on these machines. Its just a painful experience on such boards. ;)
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