A possible bug in Foxconn boards BIOS affects Linux ACPI

[cbrunning]

before you start on my English am dyslexic

so some of my typing english is bad

am here to help

[SirYes]

HI

just to say as am from Foxconn, No we dont deliberately sabotage the bios
Plus the person who replyed to the email did not understand Linux

but we will have the bios fix sometime next week and at the same time a relook at how we are testing are boards with linux.

since this board should have been tested.

please dont flame me

heAlmightyCthulhu am sending a message hope you will reply

thanks


UK Technical Manager

Nice to hear from you with such positive statements. Thanks!

At least this is much quicker and more concrete response than recent Creative dumb posting to Daniel_K, who was releasing modified sound drivers for older Creative Sound Blaster cards... See the Knight_Rider's comment which contains an original post from Phil O'Shaughnessy (VP Corporate Communications, Creative Labs Inc.):

http://forums.creative.com/creativel...cending&page=1

[damis648]

before you start on my English am dyslexic

so some of my typing english is bad

am here to help

Ah, Sorry. Sometimes I do not think and am sincerely sorry. Back on topic, can you tell us why your BIOS specifically change most things ACPI when it finds that Linux is the Operating System? (Not a flame, just wondering)

[cbrunning]

thats am unable to answer yet
but i think the board in the early stages had problem with acpi for vista and was fixed.
but so i think your seeing the remain of the tested code, which should have be removed.

not the first time i've had to have acpi fixed on are boards
and will not be the last

[damis648]

thats am unable to answer yet
but i think the board in the early stages had problem with acpi for vista and was fixed.
but so i think your seeing the remain of the tested code, which should have be removed.

not the first time i've had to have acpi fixed on are boards
and will not be the last

Thanks for your replies. When these bugs are fixed, we hope to hear back from you.

[cbrunning]

not a problem

you will hear more, i say before the end of next week
as my report goes in on monday about this
am going to enjoy this fight with china hehehe

[Rocket2DMn]

not a problem

you will hear more, i say before the end of next week
as my report goes in on monday about this
am going to enjoy this fight with china hehehe

I will continue to follow this thread, but if you could make a post on the Launchpad bug report when a fix is released, it would be much appreciated - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/251338
At that time, an official link to the newer BIOS version and/or article that outlines the changes would also be appropriate.
Thank you.

[Runamok]

Hope this gets resolved soon! The ball is in your court Foxconn!

[| MM |]

After looking through the disassembled BIOS for the last several hours, rebooting it, and tweaking it more, I'd say this is very intentional...

While i agree this is a concerning situation. I would think it a bit premature to make the accusations that are being made until it was found it failed on many versions of the linux kernel. (I am no expert) Perhaps they tested on a RHEL (for example) kernel and the latest kernels change their behaviour such that they now fail with this BIOS implementation.

I am with Kiwi, it seems a reach that they would intentionally target Linux for failure.

[feest]

I don't know much about the lower end stuff on computers like biosses and acpi tables and i'm not askint to explain. but if there is a standard to provide any os that can deal with this standard a working platform. it should not be build to devide different os'es that can deal with the same standard. if it does. this cannot be good. Either poor coding or taking down linux. (i think the first)