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SubjectRE: ACPI broken... again!
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> From: Felix von Leitner [mailto:felix-kernel@fefe.de] 
> Linux 2.5.70 and above have broken ACPI. Again. This is my fifth
> machine on which I try ACPI, two notebooks and three
> desktops, chipsets
> from Intel, VIA and SiS, no matter, ACPI still breaks 'em all.

"Again." Are you saying it used to work on these machines and then it
stopped? If so I think we have a fix to try in the next ACPI release
(which may or may not make it into the next kernel release.)

> The symptom is that eth0 does not see the others.
> /proc/interrupts has
> the correct interrupt listed, so it took me a while to suspect ACPI.
> agpgart also crashes, and firewire and USB didn't find any devices.
>
> Why oh why is ACPI so horrendously broken?

Do I hear violins playing? Poor, poor you! :)

The ACPI PCI routing code still isn't 100% correct. Have you tried
pci=noacpi? Have you diagnosed exactly what is going wrong on your
system? Have you checked bugzilla for similar bugs? Have you sent a
patch fixing the problem on your system?

> And more to the point: if it _is_ this broken, why ship it at all? I
> don't recall a single moment where ACPI did anything good for me, only
> crashes, data loss and general brokenness. This may be a technology
> fitting Microsoft and Intel PCs, but why give it even more leverage by
> supporting it in Linux? I say rip this abomination right out of the
> kernel and be done with it.

So don't compile it in for now. When you buy a system in a few years
that won't work properly without ACPI, and it *works* because of the
work everyone on acpi-devel is doing, then you'll change your tune.

Regards -- Andy
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