On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:43:06 PDT ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:04 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote > : > >> Why is it not fixed? Because, nowadays, the thing you're supposed to > >> use is the ACPI table. We've seen cases where both PIR and _MP_ were > >> copied from a different motherboard, with no change, and were > >> completely wrong. It's obvious that most vendors don't care to take > >> the time to make these tables right. > > > > so why are acpi tables also broken? > > Because, by and large, the vendors don't understand ACPI very well > either, and they tend to just copy and paste. > > But it's still the case for me that PIR and MPI are far less reliable than AC > PI. > > It's why I've gotten to hate PC hardware so much.
Virtual box is open source. If you guys know how to fix its emulated PC, I think they will be open to the idea. Erik, I have sent you the $PIR table data you wanted (with and without USB enabled).
