PnP Bios fatal error on startup

[NoOp]

On 07/24/2008 12:15 AM, Philippe Didier wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 07/22/2008 01:28 AM, Michael Faber wrote:
>>   
>> The issue stems from both buggy BIOS'. See:
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/6/243
>>
>>   
> Hi,
> 
> (very interesting article)
> 
> I was thinking. We are aware of some constructors who are kind with 
> Linux ... do we know some BIOS we would prefer or not for Linux ?
> Any good or bad BIOS references , for the next time we buy a laptop or 
> desktop ?
> 
> Philippe
> 

Good question. I suspect that there are as a brief google indicates that
some bios' are blacklisted in the ACPI driver.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+%2Bbad+bios+blacklist
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/7/448

I reckon if you're adventurous you can roll your own with coreboot :-)
[*Disclaimer* I've not tried coreboot]
http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxBIOS