Re: [Bug 529] New: ACPI under 2.5.50+ (approx) locks system hard

Zwane Mwaikambo (zwane@linuxpower.ca)
Wed, 2 Apr 2003 02:22:07 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jos Hulzink wrote:

> The only way I can boot recent 2.5 kernels is to make sure my BIOS does
> nothing that even smells like ACPI. The only response I got so far on the
> lkml is "disable acpi support" and "disable apic support". The only
> conclusion I can make is that the ACPI support in 2.5 is buggy enough to
> prevent 2.5 to emerge into 2.6 for a long time from now, and unfortunately
> nobody seems to care. I detected big IRQ / ACPI / APIC trouble since about
> 2.5.44 - 2.5.53, and nothing has changed since.
>
> NFI, I just don't understand that a core problem that prevents me from booting
> 2.5 kernels, is noticed by so few others that it is able to remain unfixed
> for so long.

Can you send me a boot log and your config file? Also a bootlog from 2.4
would be nice.

Zwane

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