a thought on laptops

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,

recognizing that there are a lot of laptops that need
acpi/lapic/apic/irq adjustment in grub, i'd like to suggest a little
project:

i know on my laptops there is dmidecode to retrieve model and brand
name, if it were included in the installer, there could be a two column
flatfile with the brand/model in one column and the grub options in the
second column. now run dmidecode on installation, detect the model/brand
and adjust the grub boot line based on a simple pattern match through
this file. if the model isnt found it just goes with the defaults.
i think this is an easy task with the provided tools. its in fact just a
gluing together of already existing stuff but will make a lot of laptop
users happier.

any thoughts about this ?

ciao
	oli

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