Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:07:42 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Cc: acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.1-RELEASE TODO Message-ID: <3EDF78DE.8070206@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <137270000.1054832665@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> References: <005d01c32b83$e00bdd90$0a00000a@eps> <137270000.1054832665@lerlaptop.iadfw.net>
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Larry Rosenman wrote: > > > --On Thursday, June 05, 2003 18:59:49 +0200 Erik Paulsen Skaalerud > <erik@pentadon.com> wrote: > >>> > FYI, I still see the ACPI messages described in the "Re: ACPI-0293 >>> > (and >>> > 0166) errors"-thread on -current ca. 5/9/2003 on >>> yesterday's -current. >>> > >>> > Lars >>> >>> Yeah, ACPI is causing many problems these days, much of which >>> can be traced back to non-compliant system BIOS's. The new >>> bootloader menu in FreeBSD 5.1 allows one to disable ACPI for >>> the time being. >>> >>> Scott >>> >> >> Will this lead to an extension of the release schedule for 5.1 until most >> of the problems are fixed? >> To me it looks like there are more and more reports about panics every >> day >> :( >> >> Erik > > For the record, yesterday's sources STILL produce the panic at 0x7 for > me on > transition to battery. > > I can get more crashdumps/kernels if someone asks. > > I've mentioned this for the last ~1.5 months. > > LER > The official position is that ACPI is in a transition period right now, and that while that gets worked out we encourage people to disable it on their systems if they are not in a position to actively debug and fix it. Scott
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