ACPI 2.6

Hi Linus, please do a

bk pull http://linux-acpi.bkbits.net/linux-acpi-release-2.6.0

The world will not stop revolving if these wait till 2.6.1, but it will make 2.6.0 easier to support if they're included.

3 bug fixes -- all are in 2.4:

1390: adds cmdline to allow manual over-ride if out policy
of forcing the ACPI SCI to level triggered is wrong.

If we don't apply, some folks with no ACPI events will need to patch.

1177: makes print_IO_APIC() output useful instead of garbage.

If we don't apply, then we need to send this patch to anybody who has an IO-APIC mode interrupt issue in ACPI mode.

1434: 1-line panic fix
BIOS with correct ACPI table check-sums but garbled data can cause panic immediately after loading with no kernel output unless this is fixed.

thanks,
-Len

ps. a plain patch is also available here:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release/2.6.0-test9/acpi-20031002-2.6.0-test9.diff.gz

This will update the following files:

 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    5 ++
 arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c        |   53 ++++++++++++++++++++----
 arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c         |    1 
 arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c          |   10 +---
 arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c          |    4 +
 arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi/boot.c      |   53 ++++++++++++++++++++----
 arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c        |    8 +--
 arch/x86_64/kernel/mpparse.c        |    2 
 drivers/acpi/bus.c                  |    4 -
 9 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

through these ChangeSets:

<[email protected]> (03/11/18 1.1453)
[ACPI] "acpi_pic_sci=edge" in case platform requires Edge Triggered
SCI
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1390

<[email protected]> (03/11/18 1.1452)
[ACPI] print_IO_APIC() only after it is programmed
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177

<[email protected]> (03/11/07 1.1414.1.7)
[ACPI] In ACPI mode, delay print_IO_APIC() to make its output valid.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177

<[email protected]> (03/11/07 1.1414.1.6)
[ACPI] If ACPI is disabled by DMI BIOS date, then turn it off completely, including table parsing for HT. This avoids a crash due to ancient garbled tables. acpi=force is available to over-ride this default.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1434