Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: [patch 6/8] PNP: replace pnp_resource_table with dynamically allocated resources | Date | Fri, 16 May 2008 11:17:25 -0600 |
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On Thursday 15 May 2008 01:54:42 am Rene Herman wrote: > On 15-05-08 01:18, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > Thanks for the report. I think I've fixed the problem. > > I saw it was PnPBIOS by the way. PnPBIOS appears to be obsolete these > days; do you have machines to test it on yourself? I do (plenty), so > although I'm not being fast with testing anyway, would you want me to > switch those from PnPACPI to PnPBIOS?
All of my machines have ACPI, but in this case, I was able to reproduce the null pointer dereference Andrew by booting with "pnpacpi=off".
PNPBIOS testing is pretty scarce, though, so anything you do along those lines would be much appreciated.
Bjorn
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