Zack's Kernel News

Zack's Kernel News

Article from Issue 147/2013
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Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Don't Trust Firmware

Over the course of debugging something, Marcin Slusarz remarked that the problem looked like it might be an ACPI bug, to which Linus Torvalds replied:

Here's the #1 thing to keep in mind about firmware:

- firmware is *always* buggy.

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