Comment 164 for bug 930447

Oliver, I too am frustrated by this situation. Following your logic though, perhaps the people you should be labelling as 'retardedly stupid' are the guys in Intel who failed to make the chip describe its capabilities accurately. Or IBM and the various other manufacturers who chose to use this chip (though I don't know whether the oversight was known at the time).

The solution is clear. Find someone who can fix the code. The code is GPL v2, it's not locked away in some proprietary vault (isn't that one of the reasons you and I like using open source?). I imagine you can fetch the source with apt-get, or if that doesn't work, go to syslinux.org where there's a web interface to the git tree.

Insulting people does communicate how strongly you feel about something. But does it encourage them to act as your willing servants?