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davej@codemonkey.org.uk said:
>  Relatively pointless given that there are more and more boxes out
> there that won't boot without ACPI these days.

There are also more and more boxes out there which won't run X without the
nvidia driver loaded. Does that mean we shouldn't bother to record that 
information either?

I'm not necessarily suggesting we should automatically ignore all reports 
with the 'BIOS' taint flag set as we do the 'Proprietary' flag; just that 
it should be reported.

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dwmw2


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