[PATCH 0/1] [Intrepid SRU, Jaunty] LP#288385 HP boot panics

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Mon Mar 2 17:06:57 UTC 2009


Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> When an HP system has 'Fan on when on AC' set in the BIOS it will panic in
> early boot.  This is due to an overly permissive check designed to match
> an ASUS system.  This patch tightens up the checks to prevent that.  This
> fix is upstream though in a different form.
> 
> This has been tested by the owners of the affected machine.  Proposing for
> SRU to Intrepid and for application to Jaunty.
> 
> -apw
> 
> Alexey Starikovskiy (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: ACPI: EC: Limit workaround for ASUS notebooks even
>     more
> 
>  drivers/acpi/ec.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> 
ACK

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