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Foxconn Releases Test BIOS Fixing Linux Crashes

Posted by kdawson on from the happy-ending-group-hug dept.

Ryan1984 writes "Only a week after the bad press coverage regarding the Linux-related bugs in a number of motherboards released by Foxconn (which turned out to be the AMI BIOS that several board makers use), Foxconn is the first vendor out with a publicly released test patch that fixes the bulk of the problems, allowing kernel 2.6.26 to run well on the afflicted boards. The remaining issues appear to either be kernel bugs in builds earlier than 2.6.26, issues with the Intel chipset itself, or minor annoyances that Foxconn is still working to resolve. Foxconn representative Heart Zhang has posted on the Ubuntu forums (where the situation began), apologizing for the issues, thanking Foxconn customers and the community at-large for their feedback, and promising that Foxconn will take Linux support and testing seriously, going forward."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: -1, Troll

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. no it won't. by Odder · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you have one of these boards, you need DOS to fix the BIOS.

    You can unzip the file, just run flash.bat on DOS mode to flash BIOS.

    It's nice of them to be more aware of the issue but we are a long way from free BIOS. Dependence on licensed M$ software for a fix just goes to show how bad non free bios and ACPI are in the first place. People who have DOS sitting around may never have noticed the problem to begin with. The rest of us will have to watch out until the problem boards have all sold out. That translates into avoidance.

    1. Re:no it won't. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      For someone who whines so much about Free software twitter, you'd have thought you'd actually know what you were talking about by being aware of FreeDOS.

  3. why play games? by westbake · · Score: -1, Troll

    This how to says freedos can do it but do we really know that this particular patch will work? DOS, like ACPI, is so sabotaged that you can never be sure. Tell me why I'd trust a patch from a company that appears to have put in a bogus GNU/Linux ACPI table. It would be easier to get a known good mother board than it would be to fry your BIOS because of some DOSy problem.

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  4. so they like getting pounded in the ass? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    linux faggots. filthy fuckking linux faggots.