Re: strange stuff in arch/i386/kernel/head.S

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:16:02 +0000 (GMT)


> (I also have to understand why my ASUS TX97-XE, which is claimed to be
> ACPI compliant, reports no AddressRangeACPI, has no "RSD PTR " table in
> the first meg, has no FACP nowhere. I just looove this.)

Because ASUS appear to thin ACPI compliant means "we might one year get
around to releasing a BIOS that uses the hardware ACPI festures". ASUS
_used_ to be a good motherboard maker, they seem to have gone downhill very
fast.

Alan

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