Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:21:22 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: acpi_ec_ecdt_probe => acpi_ec_identify Message-ID: <4B6BB8E2.6080204@root.org> In-Reply-To: <4B6BB7AF.3040205@icyb.net.ua> References: <4B6B4A3C.5090308@icyb.net.ua> <4B6BB263.4040604@root.org> <4B6BB7AF.3040205@icyb.net.ua>
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Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 05/02/2010 07:53 Nate Lawson said the following: >> I agree in concept. The ECDT-based probe method was intended to get it >> active as early as possible, and Linux has a quirk to create a fake ECDT >> to get an early EC on some systems that require it but don't have an ECDT. >> >> However, I thought jhb@'s multi-pass probe work would be a better way to >> support this than moving it into device_identify(). Is that code ready >> to use yet? > > I agree with this. But, unfortunately, the code doesn't seem to be as ready as > everyone would love it to be. Ok, then identify() is fine too. -- Nate
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