Re: Post-halloween doc updates.

[Ian Soboroff <ian.soboroff@nist.gov>]

And APM suspend seems to have broken in -test8.  Does it work for
anyone?

Ian

Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> writes:

> Power management.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> - 2.6 contains a more up to date snapshot of the ACPI driver. Should
>   you experience any problems booting, try booting with the argument
>   "acpi=off" to rule out any ACPI interaction. ACPI has a much more involved
>   role in bringing the system up in 2.6 than it did in 2.4
> - The old "acpismp=force" boot option is now obsolete, and will be ignored
>   due to the old "mini ACPI" parser being removed.
> - software suspend is still in development, and in need of more work.
>   Use with SMP and/or PREEMPT not advised.
> - The ACPI code will do basic sanity checks on the DMI structure in the BIOS
>   to determine the date it was written. BIOSes older than year 2000 are
>   assumed to be broken. In some circumstances, this assumption is wrong.
>   If you see a message saying ACPI is disabled for this reason, try booting
>   with acpi=force. If things work fine, send the output of dmidecode
>   (http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/) to acpi-devel@lists.sf.net
>   with an explanation of why your BIOS shouldn't be blacklisted.