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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>, Hanno B?ck <hanno@gmx.de>,
	"Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>,
	pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	acpi-devel@sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ACPI] RE: [BK PATCH] ACPI updates
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:17:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021209191741.GA26391@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021209191252.N20336@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:12:52PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 02:09:04PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Which machines do not work without the new ACPI code?
> 
> hp's zx1-based ia64 machines (my personal interest..) and i thought some
> laptops required updated ACPI to boot.  also, aren't there some SMP x86
> boxes with buggy bios tables that won't boot without ACPI?

There are several classes of machines that require ACPI to boot... a big
question is whether these machines need full ACPI or just acpitable.c,
too...


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-09 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-06  1:36 [BK PATCH] ACPI updates Grover, Andrew
2002-12-06 11:59 ` [ACPI] " Hanno Böck
2002-12-06 12:29   ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-12-06 13:17     ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-12-06 15:06       ` Alan Cox
2002-12-09 16:09       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-12-09 19:12         ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-12-09 19:17           ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-12-09 19:45             ` Bjorn Helgaas
2002-12-09 19:17           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-12-06 16:50 ` Pavel Machek

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