From owner-cvs-all Sat Jan 6 18:34:48 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB7B37B400; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 18:34:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f072Yw400665; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 18:34:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200101070234.f072Yw400665@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica/Subsystem/Interpreter amfldio.c In-Reply-To: <200101070229.f072TkJ87896@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 18:34:58 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > Modified files: > sys/contrib/dev/acpica/Subsystem/Interpreter amfldio.c > Log: > Fix the 'write-with-rule' operations to not do an unneeded read first. > eg: to write an 8 bit value to an 8 bit register, it was first reading > the old (8 bit) contents, "merging" the new 8 bits in (ie: complete > replacement) and then writing the new value out. > > This was breaking the SMI call on my VAIO PCG-F690, causing the system > to hang during boot. This doesn't fix everything. I need to change 'CPU Speed: Auto' to 'CPU Speed: Full' in the BIOS to get it to boot. Otherwise it randomly hangs during one of the many SMI calls during the boot sequence (and different ones each time). Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message