Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:44:59 +0100 From: Andre Grosse Bley <gandalf-hackers@nm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.9-RELEASE, ACPI and DELL Latitude D600 Message-ID: <20031112104458.GA94744@nm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20031106134755.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20031106112514.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <XFMail.20031106134755.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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> > Ah, the problem is that ACPI tries to sleep from a task, which is not safe > > to do. This is not easy to fix. :( > > Actually, it may not be too hard. In current, ACPI uses its own thread > to run the tasks in, so stable would need the same sort of thing. > Basically, ACPI needs to start up a kproc and needs to have its own > taskqueue again that uses this kproc for its execution context. So - as I am not a experienced kernel hacker - there is no easy solution for me to 'fix' this panic? Should I open a PR? Greetings, Andre
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