... and people are looking forward to signed UEFI and ACPI on ARM systems too. How do they expect an ACPI written in a chinese sweatshop will work if Asus quality is this low?
... and people are looking forward to signed UEFI and ACPI on ARM systems too. How do they expect an ACPI written in a chinese sweatshop will work if Asus quality is this low?
I assume all of these gaming laptops are largely developed by outsourced sweatshops today so I don't imagine much difference.
The firmware is amalgamated from a bunch of vendors with core solution coming from few common ones.
Sometimes you get hilarious errors, like Intel not having any way to verify if their driver is actually loading a dumped memory image (intel rapid start), so if you forgot to disable Rapid Start and installed anything on a drive in the bay that was specified for rapid start, on boot the intel driver would just... blit it into RAM and be happy dumb
I don't follow. My X13s is a Snapdragon, has full uefi, and works like a normal laptop, mostly. It can't stop from overheating and has no cooling but that's besides the point.
> I don't follow.
Open source devicetree + u-boot can be maintained independently of any manufacturer's support.