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There is no Foxconn Anti-Linux Cabal Says Lead Kernel Hacker

mjg59.livejournal.com — Mathew Garret is head of the Ubuntu laptop team and has been a long time kernel hacker dealing with mobile and power management issues. After a detailed analysis in his blog this is response on the matter: "Take home messages? There's no evidence whatsoever that the BIOS is deliberately targeting Linux. There's also no obvious spec violations,"...

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  • baron1984, on 07/28/2008, -0/+0Foxconn has blamed this on American Megatrends, and says they have programmers working at HOME on their own time fixing it, Carl Brunning and Zhane Heart have both confirmed that it is their BIOS, and to expect a fix within the next few days probably.

    The exact terms he used....(fetches email)

    On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 15:59 +0200, Carl Brunning wrote:
    > Should have a some answer tomorrow from them
    >
    > We have found the asus and msi board that have ami have the same problem
    > If the bios is award on the same chipset its fine
    >
    > So we are working on it and the bios writer are working at home as well.
    >
    > I would love to say we have a fix tomorrow but am unable to
    > As this could be fixed tomorrow or take a few days
    > It's more like how bad is the ami source code we use is and how much rewrite is there
    >
    > Sorry about this
    >
    > But keep smiling we will get there
    >
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    >
    > Kind Regards
    > Carl Brunning
    >
  • ommadawn, on 07/28/2008, -0/+0This is a dupe but I'll digg this
    http://digg.com/linux_unix/Foxconn_Deliberate_Linu ...

    FUD is always bad, not only when it's directed against Linux.

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