5.1-RELEASE TODO

[Scott Long]

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Thursday, June 05, 2003 18:59:49 +0200 Erik Paulsen Skaalerud 
> <erik at pentadon.com> wrote:
> 
>>> > FYI, I still see the ACPI messages described in the "Re: ACPI-0293
>>> > (and
>>> > 0166) errors"-thread on -current ca. 5/9/2003 on
>>> yesterday's -current.
>>> >
>>> > Lars
>>>
>>> Yeah, ACPI is causing many problems these days, much of which
>>> can be traced back to non-compliant system BIOS's.  The new
>>> bootloader menu in FreeBSD 5.1 allows one to disable ACPI for
>>> the time being.
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
>>
>> Will this lead to an extension of the release schedule for 5.1 until most
>> of the problems are fixed?
>> To me it looks like there are more and more reports about panics every 
>> day
>> :(
>>
>> Erik
> 
> For the record, yesterday's sources STILL produce the panic at 0x7 for 
> me on
> transition to battery.
> 
> I can get more crashdumps/kernels if someone asks.
> 
> I've mentioned this for the last ~1.5 months.
> 
> LER
> 

The official position is that ACPI is in a transition period right now,
and that while that gets worked out we encourage people to disable it on
their systems if they are not in a position to actively debug and fix
it.

Scott