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Matthew Garrett responds to the ASPM power regression

Posted Jul 5, 2011 15:53 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Matthew Garrett responds to the ASPM power regression by nye
Parent article: Matthew Garrett responds to the ASPM power regression

If you know who to ask, I'd gladly do so.

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Posted Jul 6, 2011 12:18 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

>If you know who to ask, I'd gladly do so.

I'm surprised nobody (possibly you) has any contacts in Microsoft already.

Possibly this is hopelessly naive, but would it be worth contacting one of the more active/responsive MS bloggers (like Raymon Chen), just to see if they can give you a pointer to someone who might be able to help?

It was just a thought anyway - I wasn't really meaning to say 'you should ask them' so much as interested in whether there is already some dialogue - I guess the answer's "no".

Matthew Garrett responds to the ASPM power regression

Posted Jul 6, 2011 13:02 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Yeah, sorry, that came across as a bit dismissive of me. We've certainly got no official relationships with Microsoft (as far as I know), and most unofficial relationships end up as a consequence of meeting people in person - and we rarely end up at the same conferences.

It's probably worth mentioning that the situation isn't unique to Linux. It turns out that widespread BIOS bugs do occasionally trip up Windows as well. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463112 is an example of this...