Re: [Xen-users] request for explanation of acpi=off

[Henning Sprang <henning_sprang@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I repost this because I believe that somebody here knows an answer for
that question, and I am not the only one with such problems.

I get those problems now also at home, where I can't spend money on
hardware until I find working hardware by accident, and the hardware
posted as known to work is also over my budget - so I like to use that
machine with acpi=off, but I want to know what the consequences can be.

Please also let me know if I do something wrong in the style I post my
questions - I made sure that I read the available docs, and searched the
mailing list, but didn't find helpful answers.

Thank you very much in advance.

Henning

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 20:46 +0100, Henning Sprang wrote: 
> Hi,
> As I had issues with some hardware needing the acpi=off xen command line
> switch to work properly (at least it seems so) with the xen kernel, at
> the same time using acpi=off was discouraged, this doesn't get out of my
> head.
> I also see that this is a often-repeated issue in the mailing list, but
> all I read about it didn't enlighten me, so I come back with my
> questions:
> 
> - why exactly am I not supposed to use acpi=off?
> 
> - what can/will happen when I do so?
> 
> - does the discouragement of acpi=off absolutely "forbid" me to use it
> in stable production environments, or is it just "not optimal" to do it,
> but acceptable if there's no other (easy) way to get some hardware
> running with xen and there's not enough money to buy as much hardware
> until I have some which does the acpi stuff well with xen?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Henning
> 
> 
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