Re: 2.6.21-mm2: ACPI exception on resume

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Tue May 22 2007 - 18:46:35 EST


On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:03:49PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > BIOS Information
> > Vendor: IBM
> > Version: 1RETDHWW (3.13 )
> > Release Date: 10/29/2004
> >
> > No sign of any EC version in the output.
>
> This is a buggy, ancient version of the BIOS, which probably means you have
> an old and slightly buggy EC firmware. I recommend you to upgrade to BIOS
> 3.21 and EC 3.04. See http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade for more
> details.

Really, I'd much prefer my kernel not regress instead. Updating
firmware is just introducing more potential instability and ignoring
the problem.

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