i810 rehash and dell inspiron 2600

[Jim Cornette]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:56:49PM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>About the rant. I've noticed a similar situation on sites which are 
>>governed by the corporations sponsoring the product. Simple words like 
> 
> 
> Same with shopping sites, removing bad reviews of products and bending
> ratings. Some at least seem to get the value of criticism but not many.
> 
> 
>>to the BIOS for all platforms should be followed. If they don't want to 
>>do the work, they should open up enough information for an Optimized 
>>BIOS for the chipset can be achieved for Linux operation.
> 
> 
> You assume they have the info themselves. That varies by vendor and machine,
> and sometimes the reason we can't get info in the Linux community is that
> the vendor would have confess to having bought the system in wholesale from
> an external no-name builder.
> 
> Alan
> 

Good point, outsourcing seems to be pretty strong of a reality. I guess 
this idea is impractical then. I'll hold off on IBM's outsourcing blunder.

Jim