5.2-RELEASE TODO
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Mon Dec 1 16:09:13 PST 2003
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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