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Message-ID: <20070522224515.GW11115@waste.org>
Date:	Tue, 22 May 2007 17:45:15 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-mm2: ACPI exception on resume

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:03:49PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > BIOS Information
> >         Vendor: IBM
> >         Version: 1RETDHWW (3.13 )
> >         Release Date: 10/29/2004
> > 
> > No sign of any EC version in the output.
> 
> This is a buggy, ancient version of the BIOS, which probably means you have
> an old and slightly buggy EC firmware.  I recommend you to upgrade to BIOS
> 3.21 and EC 3.04.  See http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade for more
> details.

Really, I'd much prefer my kernel not regress instead. Updating
firmware is just introducing more potential instability and ignoring
the problem.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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