From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jan 3 9:30:25 2001 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 09:30:22 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FA237B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:30:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f03HUFh66140; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:30:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f03HUBY50146; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 09:30:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200101031010.f03AApq02503@mobile.wemm.org> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:30:10 -0800 (PST) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Peter Wemm Subject: RE: ACPICA vs. Sony VAIO etc.. [PATCH] Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 03-Jan-01 Peter Wemm wrote: > http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/acpi.diff > > Note that this is for -current only. > > This fixes a bug in certain writes that can cause an additional read to > the location immediately before. This happens to be bad for the SMI call > mechanism on the Sony VAIO laptop series (eg: PCG-F690). > > With careful BIOS settings, this patch gets me up and running. Your > mileage may vary, but I'm keen to know what this does (or does not) do for > people who had previously been unable to run acpica in -current. > > I still do not know why, but I need to set 'CPU Speed: Full' in the bios > vs. 'Auto'. Otherwise I get a random hang at a later SMI call. I have some > theories about what is causing this, but nothing firm yet. Hmm, the CPU Speedstep option doesn't make any difference my system. However, mine locks up after probing the embedded controller: acpi0: on motherboard acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> on acpi0 acpi_pr0: on acpi0 acpi_pr0: supported power states: C0 (0us) C1 (0us) C2 (10us) acpi_pr0: supported throttling states: 100% 87% 75% 62% 50% 37% 25% 12% acpi_tz0: on acpi0 acpi_tz0: current temperature 67.8C acpi_lid0: on acpi0 acpi_cmbat0: on acpi0 acpi_cmbat1: on acpi0 acpi_acad0: on acpi0 acpi_acad0: On Line acpi_pcib0: on acpi0 pci0: on acpi_pcib0 ... acpi_button0: on acpi0 acpi_button1: on acpi0 acpi_ec0: on acpi0 The PCI devices all probe and attach fine though. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message