[Debian-eeepc-devel] [Acpi4asus-user] Bug#576199: linux-2.6: ATL1E does not longer work on EEE PC 900A

[Ben Armstrong]

On 04/03/2010 12:55 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 10:26 +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
>    
>> This should have been fixed in recent kernels, and some patchs have
>> been sent to stable to fix that.
>> What kernel are you using ?
>>      
> *I* sent your previous patches to stable because you apparently couldn't
> be bothered.  I know which models you have blacklisted and the 900A is
> not one of them.
>    

I'm curious as to why this is only now an issue with 900A, as it seems 
to be a recently developed problem (900A is an older model, supported on 
2.6.26 since lenny, provided you use the rt2860 module for wifi from 
non-free and atl1e from main).  Do we think this is because newer 
editions of this model have a newer BIOS?  And in that case, is our 
approach wrong?  Should we be focusing on model at all, or on BIOS version?

Ben Armstrong