Star Bill Gates on Making ACPI Not Work with Linux
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 13th Apr 2007 11:19 UTC
Microsoft "It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work" said Bill Gates in 1999 (pdf). While we don't know if he actually managed to do just that (creating problems to other OSes to work well with ACPI), but if he did, it is a good explanation why ACPI has been flaky on the majority of x86 computers with anything else other than Windows (the older, APM standard, seemed more compatible with alternative OSes).
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by happycamper on Fri 13th Apr 2007 11:32 UTC
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2006-01-01

hey, that is probably why my friend's computer can not boot linux, but it sure runs windows xp great.

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RE: BG
by ma_d on Fri 13th Apr 2007 15:11 in reply to "BG"
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2005-06-29

Could be, but usually -noacpi fixes acpi boot problems (it also disables all acpi features).

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