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Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:33:15 -0500 (EST)
From: John Jasen <jjasen@realityfailure.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.20 ACPI 
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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, David Woodhouse wrote:

> davej@codemonkey.org.uk said:
> >  Nice. Shame about all those boxes that won't boot without ACPI. 
> 
> I've heard a lot about such beasts but have never actually _met_ one. 
> 
> If I accidentally bought a box which wouldn't boot without ACPI, it would 
> go immediately back from whence it came -- just as it would if it turned up 
> with an nVidia graphics card.

A Vaio GR390 comes very close to not booting without the patches from 
acpi.sourceforge.net.

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