HP OmniBook 6000

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Mon Jan 3 18:30:02 GMT 2005


On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Nate Lawson wrote:

> > It used to be fatally broken, due to violating assumptions in the ACPICA
> > code at the time regarding probe order. But that was back when those
> > machines were new, and the code may now handle that case :-)
> >
>
> I don't know how well that system works but the sysresource issues were
> fixed a while back (before 5.3)

The problem was that one device required a region defined by a child of
another bus that had not yet been initialized.  The code would then get in
in an infinite loop. I have pretty complete traces of this laying around.

I'm pretty sure it was fixed later since the screaming stopped :)

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