Bug#258061: ACPI initialization hangs on Compaq Presario 2100
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 06:10:13PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
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> Anyway tnis is the 'missing pointer' for the issue on LKML:
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> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0401.2/1525.html
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> And it seems simply missing in debian sources. So the fix by Christopher
> was different (and unuseful for this issue).
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More info: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269
This is the same patch (early init) proposed by Chris and apparently does
not solve the problem for all models. At least not for Compaq AMD-based 2100.
As in many cases for ACPI related issues, it's anyway caused by a buggy
BIOS. The only detail is that it's a damn common problem :-/
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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