Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:30:57AM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> Sorry, I don't accept this. We are talking about an *overheating* >> problem, which means *broken* hardware. There needs to be at least a fix >> documented in the release-notes. > Garbage-in, garbage-out. The BIOS of that machines is broken. Do you > really expect that an interpreter (in this case the ACPI interpreter) > accepts any garbage? Other OSes don't destroy the hardware. There is a patch for Linux not to - I don't see why Debian should release with a kernel that destroys hardware, without even giving users a warning. Not everyone who buys a notebook is aware of ACPI problems, and we shouldn't expect all users to do so. Fix it or document it, I don't care. But the current state is not releasable. Marc -- BOFH #241: _Rosin_ core solder? But...
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