The firmware should NEVER try to work around OS bugs! If there's a bug in the OS, it will be fixed, ESPECIALLY if the OS is Linux! If the firmware works around the bug, then the OS bugfix turns that firmware workaround into a firmware bug.
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Date: 2015-03-12 04:27 pm (UTC)The firmware should NEVER try to work around OS bugs! If there's a bug in the OS, it will be fixed, ESPECIALLY if the OS is Linux! If the firmware works around the bug, then the OS bugfix turns that firmware workaround into a firmware bug.