[haiku-development] Re: R1alpha 2 : time to get the ball rolling ?

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:17:01 +0100

Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Looking back. ACPI could be analogous to the IDE vs ATA driver
> > > situation.  We really won't know how and who it'll affect without
> > > enabling it in default images. So ... can we flip the switch now 
> > > as
> > > opposed to later?
> > Yeah, I'd be inclined to agree with Matt. BTW there is already an
> > option to disable it in the boot loader.

+1.

> I am not opposed to that, but just thought I'd throw in that with 
> ATA, we at 
> least tried to fix all known issues before flipping the switch. If 
> memory 
> doesn't fail me, that is... I haven't updated my T60 in a while, but 
> ACPI 
> worked reliably there. On my desktop, I have the problem that 
> shutting down 
> works half of the time, the other half I have to press the power 
> button a 
> long time until I force shutdown the BIOS.

Which isn't really that worrisome, or is it? 75% shutdown is still 
better than 0% :-)

Bye,
   Axel.


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