Blacklisted ACPI Prevents Boot

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:50:49AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote:
> I just installed a 6.4-PRERELEASE kernel and tried to boot.  The boot  
> failed with a message that my ACPI was blacklisted.  I have had 'device  
> acpi' in my kernel for some time now. The boot interruption is new 
> behavior.
>
> Is this sort of change a good thing to put in UPDATING?

Please read the following thread, which includes a patch for the
mistake.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/thread.html#45080
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-September/045080.html

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