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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.20 ACPI
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 13:15, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:57:20PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>  
>  > ACPI is marked experimental (and it *is* experimental), if you run it
>  > on production machine you loose.
> 
> Nice. Shame about all those boxes that won't boot without ACPI.

Fortunately there are very very few of those, with the exception of some
laptops with defective IRQ routing tables where the ACPI table happens
to be correct.