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.

Linux checks the date of the BIOS (or ACPI table, I don't know
exactly) and if it's too old it doesn't use it. Maybe we could do
something like that by default.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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