Re: ACPI functionality loss for older i386 mainboards with -current acpi changes during 2007

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:14:50PM +0100, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
> - Both are not able to power down ('shutdown -p now'). Both freezes
>   the machines after synching the disks.

The specific issue here is that the BIOS doesn't actually add S5 as
supported state to the DSDT. This is a regression related to the acpica
update.

> - On the P3B-F -current is no longer capable to simply reboot the
>   machine (after synching the disks a lot of error messages of its
>   scsi controller appear and the machine is unresponsive).

This is a problem in the driver.

Joerg