From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 2 12:42:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404141065675 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:42:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C888FC1B for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:42:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A372D46B03; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:42:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8574D8A02B; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:42:56 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Mario Pavlov Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:09:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200906020450.n524o3kG038739@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200906020450.n524o3kG038739@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906020809.46159.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:42:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Subject: Re: kern/135070: [acpi] [patch] BIOS resource allocation and FreeBSD ACPI X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:42:59 -0000 On Tuesday 02 June 2009 12:50:03 am Mario Pavlov wrote: > The following reply was made to PR kern/135070; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Mario Pavlov > To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org > Cc: John Baldwin > Subject: Re: kern/135070: [acpi] [patch] BIOS resource allocation and > FreeBSD ACPI > Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 07:42:24 +0300 (EEST) > > Yes, indeed > that's why I stated in the Fix section that this is a very dirty hack but someone put a [patch] tag in the Synopsis > Is this framework you mentioned planned or is work on it going on already ? The framework (multiple passes) is done (I want to get it into 8.0 but am waiting for review). However, doing the actual resource discovery and management bits is another large task on top of the framework. You can read more about the multiple passes thing and some ideas on how to use it for the resource problem at http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/papers/bsdcan/2009/ -- John Baldwin