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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:01:45 -0200
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Subject: Re: Vortex86SX: only works with irqpoll
From: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
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Hello,

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/23/2009 03:40 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> [ ? ?0.000000] ACPI Error: A valid RSDP was not found
>>> (20090903/tbxfroot-219)
>>
>> No ACPI.
>>
>> Please raise a report against acpi_bios@kernel-bugs.osdl.org at
>> bugzilla.kernel.org, thanks.
>
> I believe that just means the machine doesn't support ACPI at all..

Yes; same as me.

Andrew should I report it anyway?

>From Alan message I understand that he believes it is a firmware
issue. I tried (without success) to contact DM&P about it asking for a
newer BIOS but nothing yet.

If I could workaround it, it would be nice since it could avoid issues
for users of those devices. I did research on Internet and found a lot
of users having the network adaptor not work and like and those
problems mostly looks like same issue I'm having.

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