From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:46:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041123004619.GQ19419@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1101148138.20008.6.camel@d845pe>
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 01:28:59PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
>...
> > BTW: Is all what ACPI does really required, if all I need ACPI for is
> > to turn the power off after halting my computer?
>
> On this system ACPI is required to configure the IOAPIC.
>
> It may be possible to save power in idle with c-states
> and at run-time with p-states (cpufreq) on this box,
> but I couldn't tell that from the dmesg if CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR
> was included or not.
It's not.
> If you don't care about interrupt performance and you don't
> mind pressing the power button when you halt the system,
> go ahead and run with CONFIG_ACPI=n.
Not needed "pressing the power button when you halt the system" is the
"killer application" for using ACPI for me...
> cheers,
> -Len
cu
Adrian
--
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of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-23 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-15 2:49 Linux 2.6.10-rc2 Linus Torvalds
2004-11-15 4:07 ` 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot Adrian Bunk
2004-11-15 4:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-15 5:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-15 23:27 ` Chris Wright
2004-11-15 23:58 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-18 23:14 ` 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device) Len Brown
2004-11-19 7:09 ` Chris Wright
2004-11-20 9:02 ` Len Brown
2004-11-20 12:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-20 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-20 19:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-22 19:55 ` Len Brown
2004-11-24 16:26 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-21 16:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-22 19:29 ` Len Brown
2004-11-22 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-22 20:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-22 20:38 ` Len Brown
2004-11-23 2:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-23 4:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-23 7:06 ` Len Brown
2004-11-23 20:13 ` Stian Jordet
2004-11-23 2:00 ` Chris Wright
2004-11-22 18:28 ` Len Brown
2004-11-23 0:46 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2004-11-23 1:07 ` why use ACPI (Re: 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device)) Len Brown
2004-11-23 1:23 ` Dave Jones
2004-11-23 1:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-23 1:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-23 2:47 ` Len Brown
2004-11-23 2:50 ` Dave Jones
2004-11-23 3:13 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-23 3:45 ` Dave Jones
2004-11-20 16:41 ` 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device) Linus Torvalds
2004-11-22 19:07 ` Len Brown
2004-11-22 19:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-22 20:24 ` Len Brown
2004-11-22 20:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-22 20:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-22 20:54 ` Len Brown
2004-11-22 20:51 ` Len Brown
2004-11-23 1:58 ` Chris Wright
2004-11-19 13:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-23 1:57 ` Chris Wright
2004-11-15 7:25 ` 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot Andrew Morton
2004-11-15 10:26 ` Linux 2.6.10-rc2 Russell King
2004-11-15 11:24 ` Ben Dooks
2004-11-15 11:55 ` Nick Piggin
2004-11-15 20:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-16 0:29 ` Linux 2.6.10-rc2 [dvb-bt8xx unload oops] Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-11-16 9:57 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-11-17 23:17 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-11-16 7:55 ` Linux 2.6.10-rc2 SAVAGEFB startup crash Philipp Matthias Hahn
2004-11-16 8:17 ` Colin Leroy
2004-11-16 12:43 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-16 17:27 ` Philipp Matthias Hahn
2004-11-16 21:20 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-17 11:55 ` Philipp Matthias Hahn
2004-11-16 21:43 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-11-16 16:25 ` Linux 2.6.10-rc2 Guido Guenther
2004-11-17 15:54 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-11-17 16:58 ` Linux 2.6.10-rc2 OOPS on boot with 3ware + reiserfs Vladimir B. Savkin
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411170935040.2222@ppc970.osdl.org>
[not found] ` <20041118103526.GC26240@suse.de>
2004-11-18 16:02 ` Vladimir B. Savkin
2004-11-18 18:39 ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-18 19:10 ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-18 19:22 ` James Bottomley
2004-11-18 21:32 ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-18 21:39 ` James Bottomley
2004-11-19 8:40 ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-17 19:32 ` Linux 2.6.10-rc2 start_udev very slow Andrew Walrond
2004-11-17 23:13 ` Greg KH
2004-12-16 15:56 ` Greg KH
2004-12-16 20:57 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-12-16 21:11 ` Greg KH
2004-12-16 21:20 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-12-16 21:46 ` Greg KH
2004-11-18 17:26 ` Linux 2.6.10-rc2 Vladimir B. Savkin
2004-11-18 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-18 18:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-11-19 8:43 ` Vladimir B. Savkin
[not found] <F7DC2337C7631D4386A2DF6E8FB22B30020B7225@hdsmsx401.amr.corp.intel.com>
2004-11-19 15:57 ` 2.6.10-rc2 doesn't boot (if no floppy device) Adrian Bunk
2004-11-19 17:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-19 18:51 ` Len Brown
2004-11-19 19:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-19 21:05 ` Len Brown
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