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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:17:41 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: [ACPI] RE: [BK PATCH] ACPI updates
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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...

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