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Cc: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: i386/93963: [panic] [patch] ACPI Panic with some ACPI 2.0 PC &
	cannot boot
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On Monday 20 March 2006 19:33, Mark Linimon wrote:
> Synopsis: [panic] [patch] ACPI Panic with some ACPI 2.0 PC & cannot boot
> 
> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-acpi
> Responsible-Changed-By: linimon
> Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Mar 21 00:31:09 UTC 2006
> Responsible-Changed-Why: 
> Over to maintainer(s).
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=93963

The patch basically forces the use of ACPI 1.0 tables if the ACPI 2.0 table
pointer is NULL.  This is really just more BIOS brain damage.  Most of the
patch is to Intel's ACPI-CA code, so we need to see what they think about
this workaround.

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