From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 16:17:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322D337B435 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082AD43F85 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:17:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5BNHEKX030321; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:17:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: (from stijn@localhost) by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5BNHEMk030320; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:17:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:17:14 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop To: Terry Lambert Message-ID: <20030611231714.GA30279@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> References: <200306101342.h5ADgHQ26446@mailgate5.cinetic.de> <20030610135856.GQ12096@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <3EE6CE5A.C5024CDA@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EE6CE5A.C5024CDA@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Thorsten Greiner Subject: Re: ACPI Regression in -CURRENT? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:17:14 -0000 --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 11:38:18PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Stijn Hoop wrote: > > This is due to the Dell laptops having an invalid ACPI table in the BIO= S. > > The only way to avoid these messages is to tell FreeBSD ACPI to override > > the vendor supplied table with a correct one. >=20 > Alternately, since Microsoft works just peachy with this > thing, it's somewhat apparent that the Derefof() and Refof() > can be implied by the types of the values being passed, Not that I can read one bit of ASL, but I fail to see how this is apparent. If it is, is it still as apparent to an interpreter? > and the ACPI table parsing code should be changed to work like > Microsoft's does, at least until FreeBSD displaces the 70% > marketshare and can dictate defacto implementation standards, > where Intel can't. That would be great except probably nobody knows why this laptop works with Windows without a hitch -- it could very well be that the Dell drivers implement their own battery management and completely ignore the fact that it's broken in their ACPI table. > Yeah, I know that it's better to be correct than Microsoft > compatible, but it's also better to work with hardware as > shipped by vendors. >=20 > Unless you think you can get Dell to rev their BIOS... That would be great, but I don't have the contacts at Dell. Anybody reading this who does? --Stijn --=20 This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't. -- Hofstadter --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+57h6Y3r/tLQmfWcRAkALAJoDAHnnRqATRT18MfH61JZ99I+jCACcC9ur Zr3RwTkPaPoBGiyrzWLcGYk= =HNT1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK--