Re: Linux 2.6.8-rc2 - ACPI still broken

Kevin P. Fleming
2004-07-20T17:05:29Z

Pozsar Balazs wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 04:19:54PM +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
>
>>ACPI support is still broken for the Intel D865PERL board. Booting hangs
>>when compiled for SMP/HT and succeeds only with acpi=off or acpi=ht boot
>>parameter.
>
>
> It is still broken for Intel D865GRH too, as I reported first using
> 2.6.7-rc3.

There is a new patch in the RedHat Bugzilla that fixes this problem (it
restricts one of the ACPI setup events to only run on CPU 0). Hopefully
it will get merged into the kernel tree soon, although all the
developers are at OLS this week :-(