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Article #8Re: Don't buy Foxcon Mboards being sold with dodgy BIOS
From: Big and Blue
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:57
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:57
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Nix wrote:
> (A tiny little bit of research in the topic you're arguing in wouldn't
> go amiss. A couple of quick searches showed me pages 172--173 of
> <http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADS/ACPIspec30a.pdf> (labelled 154--155)
> which plainly describe this interface.
The diagram on p-4 (pdf p-22) denotes the API Registers/BIOS/Tables
interfaces as "OS Independent technologies, interfaces, codes, and
hardware". I can't see why it should need to specify an OS setting for
this. If it does then it seems to me to be perpetuating what it was
trying to stop.
However the rest of the document implies that ACPI ("OSPM") can try to
work out what it should reply for a particular query based on this
setting, though. Seems barmy to me. Why doesn't it just respond with
reality and leave it up to the OS decide what to do with the result?
Patching an OS is (relatively) simple. Flashing a new BIOS on all
motherboards to accommodate each new OS isn't simple. But then,
Microsoft is involved, and this means they can blame the hardware
manufacturer for any problems.
--
Just because I've written it doesn't mean that
either you or I have to believe it.
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