From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 15:10:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C4516A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:10:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09AE943D49 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:10:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 9374 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2005 15:10:14 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Jan 2005 15:10:14 -0000 Received: from [10.50.41.243] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j05F9xQX074119; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:10:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:45:43 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20050102063321.709045D04@ptavv.es.net> <200501040949.19697.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <41DAF4B5.8050701@root.org> In-Reply-To: <41DAF4B5.8050701@root.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501041545.43418.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Bob Van Valzah Subject: Re: Possible Handbook Typo X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:10:15 -0000 On Tuesday 04 January 2005 02:55 pm, Nate Lawson wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:33 am, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >>>From: Bob Van Valzah > >>>Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 18:37:05 -0600 > >>>Sender: owner-freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org > >>> > >>>I'm just reading the acpi-debug.html page in the handbook and I see > >>>something that looks suspicious (to my eyes at least). > >>> > >>>Section 11.16.3.2 System Hangs (temporary or permanent) advises setting > >>>hint.apic.0.disabled="1" in loader.conf. Shouldn't hints go > >>>in /boot/device.hints instead of loader.conf? > >>> > >>>I'm no expert in this area, so I thought I check it with the ACPI list > >>>before submitting a PR. > >> > >>No typo. > >> > >>Hints may be in either the device.hints file or loader.conf, but in the > >>case of ACPI, it's probably better to use loader.conf as it is processed > >>earlier and ACPI starts doing things very early in the boot procedure, > > > > Nah, the boot only checks to see if ACPI is there, but that info isn't > > used by the kernel if the disable hint is set. Setting it in either file > > is find. > > I recommend loader.conf since device.hints is overwritten during a full > kernel upgrade while mergemaster handles loader.conf just fine (see > src/UPDATING). That's because the instructions are broken. It does say '# as needed', but it really should be more like '# if you don't have one already'. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org