On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 13:53 -0500, Jeff Webb wrote:
> Philippe Gerum wrote:'
> > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 09:43 -0500, Jeff Webb wrote:
> > > After many, many recompiles.... As it turns out, this buggy
> > > behavior occurs when I turn off CONFIG_ACPI completely, instead
> > > of just turning off CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR.  I tried this same 
> > > configuration file with the non-patched vanilla kernel, and got 
> > > strange behavior as well, so the problem is probably not in the 
> > > adeos patch (unlike the other two issues we discussed).  I am not 
> > > really concerned about this, since I would rather have some of 
> > > the CONFIG_ACPI options on anyway.  I just wanted to follow up
> > > and let you know I tracked down the problem as far as I care to 
> > > take it for the moment.
> >
> > Interesting, this looks like power management quirks, maybe caused by
> > funky BIOS interactions. In any case, this is worth a new paragraph in
> > the troubleshooting file. Thanks a lot for testing and reporting this.
> 
> For what it's worth... turning off CONFIG_ACPI completely does not seem to 
> cause a problem if I disable SMP.  So, it seems like the problem is turning 
> off CONFIG_ACPI completely for an SMP kernel.
> 

ACPI is used to parse the SMP boot table, among other things, so this
makes sense.

> -Jeff
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Philippe.



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