Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:05:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:05:47 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:14858 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:05:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:12:59 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: David Woodhouse Cc: Dave Jones , Adrian Bunk , Ducrot Bruno , Margit Schubert-While , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.20 ACPI Message-ID: <20021125181259.GB5302@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <20021125121545.GA22915@suse.de> <4.3.2.7.2.20021119134830.00b53680@mail.dns-host.com> <20021119130728.GA28759@suse.de> <20021119142731.GF27595@poup.poupinou.org> <20021119164550.GQ11952@fs.tum.de> <20021123195720.GA310@elf.ucw.cz> <4020.1038240431@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4020.1038240431@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 23 Hi! > > 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. I have omnibook xe3, will boot without ACPI but USB will not work due to interrupt routing problems. It has buggy PIR$ table, acpi tables are okay. Of course it is HP bug. Pavel -- Casualities in World Trade Center: ~3k dead inside the building, cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/