Bug 48891 - ACPI is not included in kernel
Summary: ACPI is not included in kernel
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-07-12 13:17 UTC by Bryan Leopard
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:34 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-07-12 13:24:14 UTC

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Description Bryan Leopard 2001-07-12 13:17:33 UTC 
The kernel currently being used does not have ACPI.  ACPI is desired by 
Compaq for upcoming projects.  ACPI is available in the 2.4.6 pre5 kernel.
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-07-12 13:24:10 UTC 
ACPI will not be enabled. There is no usable ACPI implementation for Linux,
and 95% of the existing bioses will just break when we enable ACPI.
(To illustrate: the first thing Microsoft helplines do is ask customers 
 to disable ACPI for W2K problems)

I want to really really ask Compaq to at least include a $PIRQ table in their
new bioses, even for legacy-free machines. That's basically all that is needed
for Linux support, we have a more complete checklist available for BIOS writers
if you want.
Comment 2 Michael K. Johnson 2001-07-12 14:46:43 UTC 
Even the group at Intel who are implementing ACPI for Linux say that
their code isn't ready yet.  ACPI will not be enabled in fairfax.
This decision has been made, and we are past feature freeze for
everything but drivers so we are well beyond the point where that
could be reconsidered even if it were worth reconsidering.

Hardware that requires ACPI to boot will not be supported in fairfax.
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