Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:26:00 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: re@FreeBSD.org Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO Message-ID: <20031201235600.GP12914@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200312011501.hB1F1NJe048491@fledge.watson.org> References: <200312011501.hB1F1NJe048491@fledge.watson.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Monday, 1 December 2003 at 10:01:23 -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > This is an automated bi-weekly mailing of the FreeBSD 5.2 open issues list. > > Show stopper defects for 5.2-RELEASE > > +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Issue | Status |Responsible | Description | > |-----------+-----------+------------+-----------------------------------| > | | | |The new i386 interrupt code | > |ACPI kernel| | |requires that ACPI be compiled into| > |module |In progress|John Baldwin|the kernel if it to be used. Work | > | | | |is underway to restore the ability | > | | | |to load it as a module. | > |-----------+-----------+------------+-----------------------------------| I'm currently investigating ACPI problems on a dual processor Intel motherboard (re@ knows about this). It looks as if the new code is much fussier than the old code about the quality of the motherboard BIOS: this machine runs fine on 5.1, but won't finish booting on 5.2-BETA. Yes, this is probably an ACPI bug, but users aren't going to see it that way: if we release a 5.2 which won't boot on a lot of machines, people are going to blame 5.2, not the machine. I think we should ensure that there's at least a fallback for machines with broken ACPI. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/y9UQIubykFB6QiMRAqmpAJ9XIY8j6PA5dn/RvH+y80Uy/QClJgCePiTh a62O7kWep852mZDL0Xvy02g= =egcN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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