Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO

On Monday,  1 December 2003 at 17:12:23 -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>
> This argument is exactly why I added the 'disable acpi' option in the boot
> loader menu.  Of course, we STILL need to get good debugging information
> from you as to why you get a Trap 9 when ACPI is disabled.  This is the
> more important issue.

I've sent information, and I'm waiting for feedback about what to do
next.  The fact that the stack is completely trashed doesn't help,
admittedly.

Greg
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