>From <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5966>
>Probably they've marked all the dates as 11-30-99 Yes, this seems to be true. I did get a battery and updated to the latest 600E BIOS and the date is unchanged. But as I build with CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0 this isn't an issue. >Unfortunately, the laptop doesn't even recognize the battery (even >after a reboot). 'acpi' stalls for 5-10 seconds, and the dmesg has >many of these lines > > osl-0854 [545] os_wait_semaphore : Failed to acquire > semaphore[e3fce660|1|0], AE_TIME > osl-0854 [545] os_wait_semaphore : Failed to acquire > semaphore[e3fce660|1|100], AE_TIME Probably an EC issue. Do you still see this with the latest ACPI patch or mm tree (which includes EC interrupt mode). thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
