From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 16 9:46:47 2003 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 AD36737B401 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:46:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBB3843F43 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 46895 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Jan 2003 17:46:46 -0000 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:46:46 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Ducrot Bruno Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards In-Reply-To: <20030116171203.GW12516@poup.poupinou.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Ducrot Bruno wrote: > It sound like a good idea. However, there is a lot of isssues evolved. > First, a DSDT table can and will be generated autmatically on the POST, > because at least the memory controller can have different configurations > depending on the total amount of the system memory than need to be > reflected in the DSDT table. Second, even if this is ok, you have > to consider that an OEM can have made modifications to their AML to > correct some bugs and justifying a bios upgrade. You loose then those > bug fixes. We have a way of overriding the bios: acpi_dsdt_load="YES" # DSDT Overriding acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/abitBP6.aml" # Override DSDT in BIOS by this file -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message