On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 09:26:02PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > When ACPI is disabled, I think we just have to accept that we lose some > functionality. I don't see the need for alternate ways to accomplish > everything that ACPI does. It's becoming less and less useful to > disable ACPI; I think it's only interesting as a debugging tool, and > even then it's a sledgehammer.
I'd agree with this. The days where it was plausibly practical to boot non-ACPI operating systems on hardware are clearly gone, and people who are actually disabling ACPI in the field seem to be doing so in order to avoid other bugs - and we're failing to fix those bugs as a result. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
