From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 31 19:41:32 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93DB7106564A for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:41:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danallen46@airwired.net) Received: from mail.utahbroadband.com (mail.utahbroadband.com [204.14.20.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 531EB8FC12 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 25643 invoked by uid 89); 31 Dec 2011 19:43:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.18?) (danallen46@airwired.net@66.29.174.6) by mail.utahbroadband.com with ESMTPA; 31 Dec 2011 19:43:58 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Dan Allen In-Reply-To: <20111231175714.GA48840@icarus.home.lan> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:41:29 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <1C1E4950-FEAF-48DB-9F38-2408245E16EF@airwired.net> <20111231175714.GA48840@icarus.home.lan> To: Jeremy Chadwick X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) Cc: Garrett Cooper , List FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing Subject: Re: ACPI broke going from 8 to 9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:41:32 -0000 On 31 Dec 2011, at 10:57 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Do you have a necessary reason to upgrade to 9 given this situation? > Given the conditions I would stay you should stay with 8. This philosophy seems wrong, but it may be the way to go. My Toshiba Satellite U205 used to work great with RELENG_7, but the boot = code of RELENG_8 will not recognize the 2nd core of my Core Duo (not = Core 2 Duo) processor. Nobody seems to care as few machines have Core = Duo, or few people use this era of Toshiba BIOS, or whatever. Now my Dell GX270 ACPI code is pre 2.0 (so Garrett tells me), so = RELENG_9 is out. I guess I should run all of my older machines on RELENG_7 but -- and = this is where the philosophy you suggest seems wrong -- I still want the = latest apps, security fixes, etc. If the stable tree updates ls or tcsh = or awk, I want these, but the core OS seems to have moved on from 2004 = machines. In other words, there is no tree for me. Dan