Re: ACPI Kernel 2.4.20
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:03:01AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 03:23:35PM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote:
> > Emma Jane Hogbin <emmajane@xtrinsic.com> writes:
> > > there seems to have been many problems with the 2.4.21 kernel and ACPI, so if you can,
> > > I would stick to 2.4.20 for now.
> >
> > What sort of problems have there been? Can you point to any
> > discussions of these problems?
>
> Try the acpi-support archive [1] for much of what I've seen. I've also had a
> number of personal emails sent to me because of some documentation that I
> wrote--the emails I've received have addressed a problem with APIC (which
> is like ACPI in letters only) either being turned off or on (for some
> folks it should be off but they have it on; for other folks it should be
> on but they have it off). As best I can understand, APIC is for dual
> processing stuff.
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=acpi-support
> [2] http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=4&var1=32
>
Most of the issues you mention should be now fixed with 2.4.22-pre2.
(you forgot also the RTC horror show...)
Cheers,
--
Ducrot Bruno
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-- Don't know. Don't care.
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