Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:58:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Edward Hirsel <edward_a_hirsel@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Is ACPI v3 support available or planned for FreeBSD 7-stable or 8-release? Message-ID: <351548.78152.qm@web53906.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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I have a Dell Inspiron 1526 laptop. It has 2 AMD Turion 64 TL-62 processors. Is ACPI v3 support going to be enabled on a future freebsd7-stable or 8-release ? The reason I ask is that I can load openbsd 4.3 i386 on it; even though it only the UP version loads, when I set the processor in the lowest powernow run state (the apm driver refers to it as cool perf mode), the battery can last approx 3 hrs. The amd64 version of openbsd 4.3 with the MP version loads and behaves the same way. However pcbsd7 alpha (and freebsd v7 realease, as well as pcbsd1.5/freebsd 6.3) only reports a max battery life of about one and a half hours. Is this an acpi issue, or is it something else, such as a powernow driver issue. With OpenBSD there is support for powernow K8, which I think K8 means athalon/turion 64bit processors. I can help test out changes to acpi, if needed, with reagrds to amd64 turion processors, as I have a Toshiba Satallite A215 model as well as the Dell 1526. Regards, Edward A. Hirselhelp
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