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Date:      Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:28:29 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
Cc:        bms@spc.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: device atpic to be deprecated?
Message-ID:  <200604101528.31794.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060410132427.3d01417b.conrads@cox.net>
References:  <20060329020527.f8f087a4.conrads@cox.net> <200604031152.27109.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060410132427.3d01417b.conrads@cox.net>

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On Monday 10 April 2006 14:24, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 11:52:25 -0400
> John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 April 2006 07:07, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > > On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:15:54 -0500
> > > John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I have to make sure it really works for everyone first though
> > > > before removing it would really be viable. :-/
> > > 
> > > So, would it be necessary to upgrade to HEAD in order to make sure
> > > that this problem won't still occur on my box?  Or has this stuff
> > > already been merged to STABLE?
> > 
> > This particular bunch of code is identical in HEAD and 6.x right
> > now, so we can probably debug it on STABLE just fine.
> 
> Well, some testing with my latest STABLE source update (Fri, Apr 7)
> exhibits the same problems.
> 
> I can boot the kernel and mount root OK with or without ACPI enabled
> (via the loader tunable hint.acpi.0.disabled), but not without atpic.
> 
> I can even boot OK without "device acpi" compiled into the kernel
> explicitly (and with no acpi module, either, of course, as this
> doesn't get built under amd64), but without atpic and the associated
> ACPI bits it pulls in, it's a definite show-stopper.
> 
> Another interesting side effect I've noticed is that without acpi, the
> built-in nVidia sound chip (with the snd_ich driver compiled in) is not
> recognized either.

I've lost the context..  Can you provide a verbose dmesg both with
and without 'device atpic'?

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