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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > Yes, that looks like the bug. Surprisingly I did remember my login    
   > there and added my 2 cents. I don't have much hope for their bug    
   > system. When I first installed Ubuntu 5 or so years ago, and it    
   > installed Grub into the MBR I was upset that unlike other    
   > distributions, it did not add BootManager to the grub/LILO menu even    
   > though it was the active partition. While I was knowledgeable enough    
   > to add BootManager to the grub menu, others probably aren't.   
   >   
   > They closed the bug as cosmetics.   
   >   
      
   You think that's bad?  I recently filed a VirtualBox bug about a    
   firmware API that's wholly unusable when used as requested.     
   VirtualBox's firmware erroneously reports the PCI BIOS32 code/data    
   mappings that it needs in order to operate as zero length.  This is a    
   simple error in one line of assembly language.  It's easily fixable, and    
   it's obviously incorrect on its face, even if one doesn't read the PCI    
   BIOS Specification to see the interface contract explicitly spelled    
   out.  I even provided a reasonable fix (based, in no small measure, upon    
   experience of what real firmwares on real machines request) right from    
   the get-go when opening the bug report.  I then had to endure all sorts    
   of back and forth with a nitwit from Oracle who argued at length that    
   the specification was vague, quoting something that wasn't the    
   specification as evidence, tried to pull the "You're the only person to    
   have actually told us about this, so it isn't a bug." trick, and tried    
   to pull the "It's not Linux, so VirtualBox developers like me won't take    
   you seriously." trick.   
      
   It's VirtualBox bug #8244.  Go and read and despair of the state of    
   VirtualBox bugfixing at Oracle Corporation.   
      
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