From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 5 5: 9:13 2002 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 995AD37B405 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 05:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4A643E3B for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 05:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0029.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.29] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17QRtZ-0004MR-00; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 08:09:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3D258C38.9E26407@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 05:08:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Takanori Watanabe Cc: Alex Zepeda , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI woes again.. References: <200207050945.SAA28267@axe-inc.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Takanori Watanabe wrote: > +.Sh OVERRIDING YOUR BIOS BYTECODE > +ACPI interprets bytecode named AML, ACPI Machine Language, provided by BIOS > +vendor as memory image at boot time. Sometimes, the AML code contains > +problem that is not appeared in Microsoft implement. So we provide a way > +to override it with your own AML code. > +.Pp How does Windows deal with hardware that has this problem? Do they use a "rogues" list, and replace the AML, too (only automatically)? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message