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Date:      Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:26:00 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        re@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2-RELEASE TODO
Message-ID:  <20031201235600.GP12914@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200312011501.hB1F1NJe048491@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200312011501.hB1F1NJe048491@fledge.watson.org>

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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 lis=
t.
>=20
> Show stopper defects for 5.2-RELEASE
>=20
>  +-----------------------------------------------------------------------=
-+
>  |   Issue   |  Status   |Responsible |            Description           =
 |
>  |-----------+-----------+------------+----------------------------------=
-|
>  |           |           |            |The new i386 interrupt code       =
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>  |ACPI kernel|           |            |requires that ACPI be compiled int=
o|
>  |module     |In progress|John Baldwin|the kernel if it to be used. Work =
 |
>  |           |           |            |is underway to restore the ability=
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>  |           |           |            |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.

Greg
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