On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 19:27:31 +0100
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> we're starting to see systems where the legacy BIOS is broken
> (regarding interrupts in my case), and we have to use a ioapic+ACPI
> kernel to get devices working properly (in my specific case: on the
> newest supermicro mainboards, the legacy interrupts for wm0 and wm1
> are swapped; because of this the kernel enters an interrupt a soon as
> one of the interface is configured).
> 
> Shall we provide a INSTALL.ACPI kernel ? Of couse this also mean we
> have to be able to boot it. In my case I use PXE so it's not an
> issue; I don't know if the boot loader can now select different
> kernels from a cdrom boot.

Unless someone comes with a better suggestion, I agree with you.

The cd9660 bootloader can boot different kernels but the name
cannot be larger than 8 chars... there's a PR about this problem.