On Monday, 1 December 2003 at 10:01:23 -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > This is an automated bi-weekly mailing of the FreeBSD 5.2 open issues list. > > Show stopper defects for 5.2-RELEASE > > +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Issue | Status |Responsible | Description | > |-----------+-----------+------------+-----------------------------------| > | | | |The new i386 interrupt code | > |ACPI kernel| | |requires that ACPI be compiled into| > |module |In progress|John Baldwin|the kernel if it to be used. Work | > | | | |is underway to restore the ability | > | | | |to load it as a module. | > |-----------+-----------+------------+-----------------------------------| I'm currently investigating ACPI problems on a dual processor Intel motherboard (re_at_ knows about this). It looks as if the new code is much fussier than the old code about the quality of the motherboard BIOS: this machine runs fine on 5.1, but won't finish booting on 5.2-BETA. Yes, this is probably an ACPI bug, but users aren't going to see it that way: if we release a 5.2 which won't boot on a lot of machines, people are going to blame 5.2, not the machine. I think we should ensure that there's at least a fallback for machines with broken ACPI. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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