Re: Linux 2.4.20 ACPI

From: John Jasen (jjasen@realityfailure.org)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 11:33:15 EST

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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, David Woodhouse wrote:

> davej@codemonkey.org.uk said:
> > Nice. Shame about all those boxes that won't boot without ACPI.
>
> I've heard a lot about such beasts but have never actually _met_ one.
>
> If I accidentally bought a box which wouldn't boot without ACPI, it would
> go immediately back from whence it came -- just as it would if it turned up
> with an nVidia graphics card.

A Vaio GR390 comes very close to not booting without the patches from
acpi.sourceforge.net.

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