ACPI-CA update patch for review

[Victor Balada Diaz]

On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 07:17:52PM +0000, Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:
> Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
> >This laptop doesn't boot without acpi enabled. Hangs after:
> >ppc0: parallel port not found.
> >>>That's just after printing
> >>>kern.seedenable: 0 -> 1
> >>>load: 0.27 cmd: sysctl 23 [acsem] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 276k
> >>>load: 0.08 cmd: dd 20 [piperd] 0.00u 0.05s 0% 164k
> >>That's either in /etc/rc.d/random or /etc/rc.d/initrandom.
> >Tried booting not using them and so far doesn't hang.
> 
> Might be that it can't gather enough entropy; where does it gather 
> entropy from? Perhaps from static on the (in your case nonexisting) 
> parallel port?

Don't know where it gathers the entropy by default, but worked before
so i guess that it's a bad interaction with ACPI.

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