On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:11:43 +0000
Andrew Doran <ad@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:44:19PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:56:33PM -0800, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> > > options	ACPI_BELIEVE_BIOS
> > 
> > I am strongly opposing such an option.
> 
> Agreed. Perhaps the Dell BIOS is reporting nonsense but not being
> able to work with that is a bug in NetBSD.
> 
NetBSD certainly has to be changed to cope.  The question is how.  What
cleaner change -- preferably one that can be in GENERIC kernels -- will
get Brian's hardware working?



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb