https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579932
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=579932#c48
--- Comment #48 from Andreas Nordal 2011-01-16 15:04:06 UTC ---
My computer was ordered march 25 2008. There is a newer BIOS at
http://ftp.compal.com/asp/driver_dnd/e_download.asp?M_path=/Download/NB/JFL9...,
released august 4 2008.
If I understand the included changelogs right, the 3 only changes relevant to
JFL models concern "warm boot" and communication with "thermal" sensor/chip,
the newest of which predates my computer by 102 days.
The 2 only updates made later than 2007 (concerning IFT and IFL models) are
labeled "Fix ICH8M B2 S3 resume failure" and "Update UCODE for Merom CPU". The
first sounds like a suspend-to-RAM issue I don't have. Secondly, my CPU is a
Penryn T8100, not a Merom.
Unless my current BIOS is ancient, I doubt this slightly newer one will have
any effect on my computer, let alone fix hpet (which it doesn't mention). I
will ask Multicom just to be sure. I don't want to invest the time and risk for
no hope. I'm waiting for coreboot ;)
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