RE: ACPI patches updated (20021111)

Grover, Andrew (andrew.grover@intel.com)
Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:42:21 -0800

> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@osdl.org]
> Will this fix problems with IRQ routing.
> On our SMP test machines, ACPI has to be disabled otherwise the SCSI
> disk controllers don't work.
>
> This is a major pain, and ACPI should be default off until it gets
> fixed.

ACPI has not yet been adequately tested on machines with multiple IO-APICs.
More assistance in this area would be gratefully accepted. In the meantime,
"acpi=off" works pretty well to disable ACPI-related configuration problems.

Regards -- Andy
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