Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:06:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Anthony Jenkins <scoobi_doo@yahoo.com> To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "irek-kaenly@yandex.ru" <irek-kaenly@yandex.ru>, "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z Message-ID: <1320077195.37823.YahooMailNeo@web39308.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20111031132427.GN96706@e-new.0x20.net> References: <7003D4EE027640E6A49BFC84DD733D7F@Laptop> <20111028174052.GA1034@tiny> <20111029100803.GA96706@e-new.0x20.net> <CAJ-Vmo=1kRi-LxnoX-12qLxmmoqqVxA%2B22KqK%2Bt7aYYMsUs8aQ@mail.gmail.com> <1320064924.59175.YahooMailNeo@web39314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20111031132427.GN96706@e-new.0x20.net>
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>________________________________ >From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> >To: Anthony Jenkins <scoobi_doo@yahoo.com> >Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>; "irek-kaenly@yandex.ru" <irek-kaenly@yandex.ru>; Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>; "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> >Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:24 AM >Subject: Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z > >On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 05:42:04AM -0700, Anthony Jenkins wrote: >> >________________________________ >> >From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> >> >To: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> >> >Cc: irek-kaenly@yandex.ru; Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>; freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org >> >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 9:38 AM >> >Subject: Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z >> > >> >On 29 October 2011 21:08, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> wrote: >> > >> >> And cross your fingers that the button to enable / disable wireless >> >> works out of the box. Unfortunately there's no port of Linux' acer_acpi >> >> [1] to FreeBSD. >> >> >> >> [1] http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/ >> > >> >Please please please, can someone port this? >> >> Looks like this was already ported to acpi_wmi(4) some time ago (or at least >> formed the basis for acpi_wmi(4)), but I can't load it on my Acer Aspire 5552 without panicking the kernel - seems it tries to construct two >> cdevs with the same name. Looking into a patch now, just to see what it does. > >I loaded apci_wmi on an Acer notebook and /dev/wmistat was created. >Using cat(1) I was presented a table of three GUIDs. Google told me that >one of them represented the Wireless / Bluetooth state. I had to modify the driver to create /dev/wmistat%d instances for the two interfaces it detected on my laptop. cat(1)'ing each shows a single GUID entry. My laptop model is not listed in the Linux acer_acpi supported hardware, but this laptop is the first one that has had almost *everything* supported by FreeBSD - ACPI suspend/resume, wireless Atheros NIC (thanks Adrian!), SATA HDD, etc. So I apparently don't even need acpi_wmi(4)... >But what to do then? acpi_wmi's manpage only says that it can only read >the values via wmistat, but not how to alter them. Maybe that functionality is what needs to be ported to FreeBSD :-) I'll go that route. Anthony >> >> ...and I had just downloaded the Linux kernel sources to try my hand at a port (acer_acpi lives in the Linux kernel now). What is the current procedure (if any) for porting GPL'd stuff to BSD? >> >> >> Anthony >> >> >> >> >Adrian >> > > >
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