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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 2023 04:15:12 GMT
From:      Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   git: 5d4f897f88ed - main - UPDATING: Add unset hint.acpi.0.disabled as workaround for no ACPI
Message-ID:  <202311230415.3AN4FC8D022133@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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The branch main has been updated by imp:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=5d4f897f88ed87d3dc4204fbfac726eac5472001

commit 5d4f897f88ed87d3dc4204fbfac726eac5472001
Author:     Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2023-11-23 04:12:28 +0000
Commit:     Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2023-11-23 04:12:28 +0000

    UPDATING: Add unset hint.acpi.0.disabled as workaround for no ACPI
    
    Explicitly add the 'unset hint.acpi.0.disabled' command to work around
    this problem.
    
    Sponsored by:           Netflix
---
 UPDATING | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 8b503e1ccfb6..cea03f7dc7c3 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -31,7 +31,11 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW:
 	If you have an arm64 system that uses ACPI, you will need to update your
 	loader.efi in the ESP when you update past this point.  Detection of ACPI
 	was moved earlier in the binary so the scripts could use it, but old
-	binaries don't have this, so we default to 'no ACPI' in this case.
+	binaries don't have this, so we default to 'no ACPI' in this case. You can
+	undisable ACPI by doing
+		OK unset hint.acpi.0.disabled
+	This can also be used to recover any other system that was updated in the
+	small window where amd64 was also broken.
 
 20231113:
 	The WITHOUT_LLD_IS_LD option has been removed.  When LLD is enabled



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