Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:03:57 -0700 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: "James E. Flemer" <jflemer@uvm.edu> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI blacklist of Asus P2B-F Message-ID: <4179E63D.6010500@root.org> In-Reply-To: <4179990F.9080805@uvm.edu> References: <4179990F.9080805@uvm.edu>
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James E. Flemer wrote:
> I believe the quirk (blacklist) entry for the Asus P2B-F motherboard can
> be removed for FreeBSD. I have been running a server with that
> motherboard with ACPI enabled from soon after ACPI support was added to
> FreeBSD. Since it's a server, I haven't extensively tried sleep or
> suspend; S1 seems fine, haven't tried S4(non-BIOS), and it doesn't
> support any other ('cept S5). I think that the blacklist probably
> originated from some Windows version and problems with shut down (system
> would not power off). FreeBSD can power this box off via 'shutdown -p'
> and 'acpiconf -s 5'. All I can find with Google about this board and
> ACPI seems shutdown related. It may be possible that older BIOS vers
> (hopefully with different ACPI oem version #s) have legitimate problems,
> but it seems to me that rev 0x58582e31 is just fine for FreeBSD.
>
> Anyone else have this board who has tried ACPI? Can we change the quirk
> to '< 0x58582e31' rather than '<= 0x58582e31'?
Thanks for the data point and I'm open to doing this. Is there a newer
BIOS revision available? If there isn't, please let me know, we'll set
up a PR with the board info and dmesg, and then commit the change.
--
Nate
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