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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:34:23 +1100
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: jhf@rivenstone.net (Joseph Fannin)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] DMI patch for broken Dell laptop
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Hi Joseph,

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:09:48 -0500 jhf@rivenstone.net (Joseph Fannin) wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:02:25AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Marcelo, Linus,
> > 
> > This adds DMI recognition for anohter broken Dell laptop BIOS (BIOS
> > version A12 on the Insiron 2500).
> 
>   I think this problem exists for all i2500 BIOS versions > A06. (I
> have such a machine, and access to the BIOS versions back to A08 if
> there is something specific I can test for -- that APM power status
> worked with revision A06 is just heresay.)

Thanks for the offer.  The way to test this is to install each BIOS version,
boot into Linux (preferably in single user mode :-)) and then cat /proc/apm.
If you get an OOPS with then it probably has this problem.  The send
the BIOS versions to us and we will add them to the black list.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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