Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:12:23 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO Message-ID: <20031201171044.N54268@pooker.samsco.home> In-Reply-To: <20031201235600.GP12914@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200312011501.hB1F1NJe048491@fledge.watson.org> <20031201235600.GP12914@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 1 December 2003 at 10:01:23 -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > This is an automated bi-weekly mailing of the FreeBSD 5.2 open issues list. > > > > Show stopper defects for 5.2-RELEASE > > > > +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > | Issue | Status |Responsible | Description | > > |-----------+-----------+------------+-----------------------------------| > > | | | |The new i386 interrupt code | > > |ACPI kernel| | |requires that ACPI be compiled into| > > |module |In progress|John Baldwin|the kernel if it to be used. Work | > > | | | |is underway to restore the ability | > > | | | |to load it as a module. | > > |-----------+-----------+------------+-----------------------------------| > > I'm currently investigating ACPI problems on a dual processor Intel > motherboard (re@ knows about this). It looks as if the new code is > much fussier than the old code about the quality of the motherboard > BIOS: this machine runs fine on 5.1, but won't finish booting on > 5.2-BETA. Yes, this is probably an ACPI bug, but users aren't going > to see it that way: if we release a 5.2 which won't boot on a lot of > machines, people are going to blame 5.2, not the machine. I think we > should ensure that there's at least a fallback for machines with > broken ACPI. This argument is exactly why I added the 'disable acpi' option in the boot loader menu. Of course, we STILL need to get good debugging information from you as to why you get a Trap 9 when ACPI is disabled. This is the more important issue. Scott
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