[Fwd: Re: Linuxbios and Linspire laptop]

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> [040601 17:12]:
> You may have to care about power management, SystemBIOS reflashing and
> the lid etc. or those features may not work depending on how they did
> the hardware design. Like I have said before there is really no standard
> for this.

Power management and lid close detection is a matter of someone
implementing the needed ACPI tables for that. ACPI support is 
basically implemented in LinuxBIOS but each system type needs it's
specific set of tables for ACPI to do any good.

Stefan