Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:43:52 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: i386/93963: [panic] [patch] ACPI Panic with some ACPI 2.0 PC & cannot boot Message-ID: <200603211343.55664.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200603210033.k2L0Xorb043252@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200603210033.k2L0Xorb043252@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Monday 20 March 2006 19:33, Mark Linimon wrote: > Synopsis: [panic] [patch] ACPI Panic with some ACPI 2.0 PC & cannot boot > > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-acpi > Responsible-Changed-By: linimon > Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Mar 21 00:31:09 UTC 2006 > Responsible-Changed-Why: > Over to maintainer(s). > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=93963 The patch basically forces the use of ACPI 1.0 tables if the ACPI 2.0 table pointer is NULL. This is really just more BIOS brain damage. Most of the patch is to Intel's ACPI-CA code, so we need to see what they think about this workaround. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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