Foxconn fix their BIOS after complaints from the Linux community.

A week ago, I blogged about Foxconn sabotaging there motherboards so they don’t run Linux.
On some of the new Foxconn motherboards, Linux freezes and shows strange kernel errors.

TheAlmightyCthulhu from the Ubuntu Forums disassembled the bios and thinks that a faulty DSDT table was what done it.

Foxconn were aware of the bad BIOS and would not correct it as ‘it doesn’t support Linux’ and is only ‘Microsoft certified.’

However, After lots of people ringing support and complaining, Heart Zang from Foxconn, China Announced a fix on the Ubuntu Forums.

Here is an extract:

“Hello every enthusiasts on Linux, My name is Heart Zhang from Foxconn China, these days I and another Foxconn guy in UK names Carl Brunning contacted Ryan Farmer with each other at all times by email and phone on the big issue happened on our Foxconn MB G33M-S. Yesterday evening I sent one debug version BIOS about this issue to Ryan, ask him to help us verify again. This morning Ryan replied me his testing result. Almost bugs are fixed by this BIOS.”

The FTP servers that were mentioned on the post no longer work, but an alternative will be posted on the post here.

This is one of the first times a hardware vendor listened to the Open Source Community and took action.