Re: W2100Z Critical temperature explained

[Kjartan Maraas]

tir, 25,.10.2005 kl. 19.42 +0100, skrev Alan Cox:
> On Maw, 2005-10-25 at 12:43 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > various Linux kernels. Certainly in cases like these where destruction
> > can occur due to the bugs in the firmware, this merits being passed
> > along to the Linux kernel users.
> 
> If that is indeed the case and as serious as you describe then I'm sure
> Sun will be contacting all their customers urgently to advise them of
> the flawed hardware as they would with faulty PSU's or other items.
> 
> Trying to track each of the billion broken PCs in the world work on a
> given day with a given card combination is something thats almost
> computationally infeasible
> 
FWIW I've seen this from time to time on my HP/Compaq nc4010 laptop as
well, but there's been no updated BIOS for this one in close to a
year...

Cheers
Kjartan

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