On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 09:46:36AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold > with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that junk in > the first place. Or at least stop buying the crap made by _this_ > manufacturer in a future. I'm still not convinced. Any better reasons? In my experience, all code has bugs. Instead of trying to find some vendor that has magically released hardware with bug-free firmware, I choose vendors that make it relatively painless to apply the firmware updates under Linux. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>