On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> So yes, it assumes the ACPI tree the vendor provides makes some kind of
> sense (granted, that might be a big assumption, but I have yet to see a
> table where it is untrue), but if it's not the case, it's not fatal:
> acpi0 will try to attach unclaimed nodes at the end of the process.
>
> You can see an example of the resulting dmesg here:

This looks good. Have you tried a standard GENERIC kernel to see how it 
behaves on both modern and non-ACPI PCs?

Cheers,
Jraed