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Date: Fri,  8 Jul 2011 13:41:19 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom & virtualbox 4.0.10 networking issue
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On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:43:06 PDT ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>  wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:04 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@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).