Re: 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 doesn't boot

[Adrian Bunk]

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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