i386/69750: Boot without ACPI failed on ASUS L5

[Tilman Linneweh]

The following reply was made to PR i386/69750; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tilman Linneweh <arved at FreeBSD.org>
To: Maxim Maximov <mcsi at mcsi.pp.ru>
Cc: freebsd-bugs at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/69750: Boot without ACPI failed on ASUS L5
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:05:57 +0200

 Maxim Maximov:
 > > Did this Board boot without ACPI with an older version of FreeBSD
 > > (e.g. STABLE), is this a regression?
 > 
 > This is unknown. I didn't have FreeBSD version older than 5.2.1 on this 
 > notebook. I could, say, try to load from 4.x boot CD and see if it loads 
 > fine. Is it needed? If yes, what version do you want me to try?
 
 There were some discussions about regressions when booting w/o ACPI in
 CURRENT 
 (e.g. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200403111246.12192.jhb )
 
 So I guessed trying to boot a 4.x kernel would be a good test.
 
 regards
 tilman