Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:48:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:48:45 -0500 Received: from quark.didntduck.org ([216.43.55.190]:28946 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:48:39 -0500 Message-ID: <3DCA8CCE.5090503@didntduck.org> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:54:54 -0500 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: Dave Jones , Alan Cox , CaT , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5.45 / boottime oops (pnp bios I think) References: <20021107145112.GA24278@suse.de> <1036415133.1106.10.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20021104025458.GA3088@zip.com.au> <9668.1036679581@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> <11262.1036680930@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 27 David Woodhouse wrote: > 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. You only need the binary driver for 3D support. XFree86 runs fine without it for 2D. -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/