What's the way forward if we have a current BIOS with ACPI but no SMBIOS? acpi=force works as expected. Is SMBIOS a requirement with ACPI? If not, what would a patch need to do to correctly identify a working ACPI without SMBIOS present to avoid the blacklist? Thanks, -- Ken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html