On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:21:01AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	Given the number of people having problems with ACPI now its
> 	enabled by default, would there be any sense in having a kernel
> 	option which disables ACPI on PIII and earlier CPUs? That should
> 	leave it enabled in all the new machines where its needed, but
> 	have it off by default on the older machines where it has a
> 	good chance of causing problems.

This wouldn't help me with an AMD X2 where I have ioapic problems.
There are patches to fix at least the non SMP problem, but it is still
not commited.

Bernd