Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:44:43 +0200 | From | Felix von Leitner <> | Subject | ACPI broken... again! |
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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.
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?
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.
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