Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:18:19 -0600 From: Peter Schultz <pmes@speakeasy.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Joel M. Baldwin" <qumqats@outel.org> Subject: Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards Message-ID: <3E2856FB.2050004@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030117134208.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <XFMail.20030117134208.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On 16-Jan-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > > >"Joel M. Baldwin" wrote: > > > >>I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad ACPI asl's > >>on them. I know that my Abit BP6 sure has problems. As a result I > >>can't run ACPI. > >> > >>What are those of us with these motherboards supposed to to? > >> > >>I realize that we can use acpidump to get the asl, correct it, > >>and then recompile it using iasl from the acpicatools port, to > >>generate the aml that can be used during boot. > > > >There are several things you can do, one of which is what you > >have suggested, though you do not go far enough: > > > >1) Correct the ASL, make a file modification so that > > FreeBSD can run on the system with the incorrect > > ASL, and then *notify the motherboard and BIOS > > vendors of the correction, and the reason for it*. > > > >2) The ASL works *fine* with the Windows ACPI code; > > *correct* the FreeBSD code so that it *also* works > > fine for FreeBSD (i.e. if the FreeBSD code were a > > line-for-line duplicate of the Windows code, then > > FreeBSD would not be having these problems, where > > Windows does not, would it...). > > > Well, the problem here is that we don't write this code, Intel > does. > The problem is that Mike Smith quit. If I remember correctly, he fixed two of these for me when he was working on CURRENT. Googling `Mike Smith freebsd acpi' gets 482 results. If someone can get close to him, this stuff might get solved. Pete... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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