Public bug reported:

[Impact]
Some systems boot failed at a very early stage, only blackscreen shown.

[Fix]
Some system BIOS set definition in if statement, it would be deferred to be 
loaded.
Some devices would not work properly and cause a system lockup.
execute all acpi tables to make system work properly.

[Test]
Tested on several laptops, the laptop that failed to boot boots well.
Other laptops still works fine.

[Regression Potential]
Upstream fix. Low risk.
Backported changes is one line of debug ouput sentence in nsparse.c:
s/Start table execution pass/Start load pass/

Verified on several laptops. Fix boot failure and no regression found.

** Affects: hwe-next
     Importance: Critical
     Assignee: AaronMa (mapengyu)
         Status: New

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: originate-from-1819416 sutton

** Tags added: originate-from-1819416 sutton

** Changed in: hwe-next
     Assignee: (unassigned) => AaronMa (mapengyu)

** Changed in: hwe-next
   Importance: Undecided => Critical

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  [SRU] [B/OEM] Fix ACPI bug that causes boot failure

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