Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
Looks like a case where the hardware manufacturer can't be bothered anymore to fix its own BIOS, but SUSE or the kernel devs should work around the bugs in it. They usually do, but I have to say that it's not fair to SUSE.
I didn't really mean to discuss these examples. However - in this case, a change was made to openSUSE 10.x which meant this bug suddenly became a problem. Hardware manufacturers rarely support their kit with upgrades past end-of-life, but is it right for openSUSE to follow that same path?
Hardware manufacturer should take care of its shit until the customer is done using it.
Surely you're joking? Of course they'll never, ever do that.
If you're prepared to accept that the manufacturer will not do that, why not accept that SUSE can't do that either?
Well, as it happens SUSE can and did do it.
So if you really need to reinstall the OS on some old junk, it means it's time to get rid of the junk.
Unfortunately we don't have a few hundred thousand francs to invest in new kit, otherwise we would perhaps be considering it.
ISA-support: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231191
:-( ISA support, come on! Even worse, ISA PnP, what a nightmare...
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