Am Mittwoch, den 02.01.2013, 10:04 -0800 schrieb ron minnich:
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Goodbody ajg4tadpole@gmail.com wrote:
I am sure that it is the old story, most testing will be done against Windows. Anything more will be the exception. This is where the pressure needs to be put on the platform vendors as this is the part that they are responsible for.
Sorry, vendors don't have a pattern of paying attention to end user sales issues such as "won't boot Linux". They are selling into a market in which Linux is about 1% at best of sales. That's been the common experience anyway, even at very large companies: BIOS issues just don't get fixed.
Well at least ASRock did test Ubuntu on one system and fixed it. This is in the changelog for BIOS version 1.70 for the ASRock E350M1 [1].
»2. Modify Ubuntu 12.04 can not shutdown issue.«
I guess either the coreboot porters told them, Canonical exercised pressure or one of the ASRock employees uses Ubuntu at home. ;-)
Thanks,
Paul
[1] http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?cat=Download&os=BIOS&Model=E35...