From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269032AbUJKPuI (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:50:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268775AbUJKPZI (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:25:08 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:42909 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268957AbUJKPWt (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:22:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:17:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Nick Piggin cc: Kernel Mailing List , "Brown, Len" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches) In-Reply-To: <416A5857.1090307@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <416A5857.1090307@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Nick Piggin wrote: > > ACPI still explodes on my old PII and stops it booting. (I've reported it > to Len a few times but he seems to be ignoring me). I suspect the "CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR" might be the solution they came up with. Old ACPI stuff tends to be broken. That said, your patch is small and simple, so.. Linus