From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 16:13:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA07716A4CE; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:13:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6636C43FDF; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:12:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4775F2BD34; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:12:55 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A2091511FB; Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:42:53 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:42:53 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20031202001253.GQ12914@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200312011501.hB1F1NJe048491@fledge.watson.org> <20031201235600.GP12914@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20031201171044.N54268@pooker.samsco.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fUm0f2RSYrSJjszE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031201171044.N54268@pooker.samsco.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: re@FreeBSD.org cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 00:13:03 -0000 --fUm0f2RSYrSJjszE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 1 December 2003 at 17:12:23 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> 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 >> >> 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. > > This argument is exactly why I added the 'disable acpi' option in the boot > loader menu. Of course, we STILL need to get good debugging information > from you as to why you get a Trap 9 when ACPI is disabled. This is the > more important issue. I've sent information, and I'm waiting for feedback about what to do next. The fact that the stack is completely trashed doesn't help, admittedly. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --fUm0f2RSYrSJjszE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/y9kFIubykFB6QiMRAukcAJ42ikx6TSdbbhxii7P2vHxUkpAgYgCeLQFR Nj1zTAjsR40qqK7n9dvs+PQ= =/qHO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fUm0f2RSYrSJjszE--