Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:45:11 -0500 From: "Haapanen, Tom" <tomh@waterloo.equitrac.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: New AMD64 owner Message-ID: <B1D77424948FD611A3B80000C0109EEF0225A07A@SYNCRO>
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Is there any real downside in turning off ACPI? Especially for a server that will be running 24x7? Tom -----Original Message----- From: James Van Artsdalen [mailto:james-freebsd-amd64@jrv.org] Sent: 29 January, 2004 08:43 To: tomh@waterloo.equitrac.com Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New AMD64 owner > From: "Haapanen, Tom" <tomh@waterloo.equitrac.com> > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:30:02 -0500 > > What about the ACPI issues? I emailed about those a few days ago, and > I have seen other questions, too. Are these a real problem, or am I > too concerned? I have been ignoring these for a couple of months and have not been struck down by lightning from above. There have been reports of a couple of devices not working that sounded to me like potential IOAPIC/IRQ/etc mapping problems caused by using bad data from ACPI tables (whether the BIOS had a bogus table or FreeBSD a bogus parser is unknown to me). This is rare. In short, if it seems to work, it probably does. If it doesn't work, try turning off ACPI in the BIOS.
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