Re: 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 doesn't boot

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 08/14/04

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To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

    On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 03:15:56PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
    > On Thursday 12 August 2004 4:43 pm, Len Brown wrote:
    > > I expect that the the bug is that floppy.c, like other motherboard
    > > devices, should take advantage of ACPI for device resource
    > > enumeration.
    >
    > Adrian, can you try the following patch? This is very sketchy start
    > at using ACPI to enumerate floppies. This patch only checks for
    > a floppy controller (PNP0700) in the ACPI namespace. If ACPI has
    > been disabled, or we actually find a controller, we probe blindly
    > for the floppy controller as we did in the past. If ACPI is enabled
    > and we DON'T find a controller, we just exit with -ENODEV.
    >...

    It fixes my problem.

    cu
    Adrian 

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