Outstanding ACPI issues for 5.1-RELEASE

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Tue, 6 May 2003 23:32:03 +0200, Wilko Bulte <wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl> said:

> Want another one? 

> Compaq EVO N160 locks up solid after printing Mounting root <bla> or
> Trying /sbin/init.

I haven't tried the current code drop yet, but I have a number of
machines that lock up during device probes because of something broken
in ACPI.  (I have reported this bug before.)  Disabling the ACPI timer
code makes these machines boot in 5.0.  That should be part of the
debugging procedure for any unexplained ACPI boot-time lockups.

-GAWollman