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    SubjectRe: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4)
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    On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
    > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:15:21PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
    >
    >> As things stand, this is likely to be a problem for anybody using lenny on
    >> Eee hardware and upgrading (on their own) to 2.6.29, given that that
    >> workaround is present in eeepc-acpi-scripts in lenny.
    >>
    >> Anyway, removing that option fixes the problem.
    >
    > Ok. I'll look into ensuring that these don't collide, but fundamentally
    > the problem here is distributions using broken options rather than
    > fixing the problem properly in the first place.
    >
    >> > BIOS bug. There's an explicit delay in the eee bios for some reason, and
    >> > I haven't found any straightforward way to avoid it.
    >>
    >> BIOS bug or no, the fact remains that this is (AFAICS) a regression.
    >
    > You don't get properly working hotkeys otherwise, to the best of my
    > recollection. There's an entry on the kernel bugzilla about this
    > somewhere.
    > --
    > Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12243
    If I understand things correctly, this was already the case before,
    but the kernel boot was slower, so we could'nt see that.
    If it's not the case, someone with a 901 should try bisecting (I only
    have a 701).


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