From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 1 00:16:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C48F11065670; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 00:16:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8C58FC0C; Sun, 1 Jan 2012 00:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbbfr13 with SMTP id fr13so20229233vbb.13 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:16:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3QOKk0brNpNymel4Xe5JPA9QKFC8RuMETf0B2pbfZiA=; b=p3DXrZVrzqEOHJ0R4FQkBpXK+6eirq1ieHO2ijwOR+NgjeAYGloDjOYUcXzen348bR nsSBg8YDsKXmNO8jZYl1/aojbq4xFoYO8K2PN7++l8CkbBUt36pOl0RrBafTGo8OsVWi 7cTazdbQ0n8QvYLDrbuj4jXSVCZLrE/DLTrSo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.23.44 with SMTP id j12mr14674422vdf.117.1325377015498; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:16:55 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.36.5 with HTTP; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:16:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <863B2CE2-BB30-4E67-8CB7-9BBFACB9A20A@airwired.net> References: <038588ED-E0E0-46F6-8E28-1926FBE28825@airwired.net> <70F3E6A6-762E-4C4F-B517-C386304DF85F@airwired.net> <8DF650FE-CE0D-4DA4-901C-B19269464F9C@airwired.net> <04292366-1297-488F-9239-98565828DDC8@airwired.net> <20111231233152.GA54245@icarus.home.lan> <863B2CE2-BB30-4E67-8CB7-9BBFACB9A20A@airwired.net> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:16:55 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4bQMlh-3KCih596kXtMnap9_PJA Message-ID: From: Adrian Chadd To: Dan Allen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: List Mailing FreeBSD-STABLE , jhb@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper , mav@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick Subject: Re: ACPI broke going from 8 to 9 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:16:56 -0000 On 31 December 2011 16:08, Dan Allen wrote: > Almost every day I csup from RELENG_x and build. =A0The traces of RELENG_= 8 are gone, so no, unfortunately I cannot give you a uname -a from those da= ys. Would you consider having a small partition to do the same for HEAD? :P > However, I have a build log file, and I see that I moved from RELENG_8 to= RELENG_9 on Friday, Dec 23, 2011. =A0I csup'd at 12:24:26 MST and discover= ed the failure at 15:41 MST. > > This "nooptions NEW_PCIB" fix does seem rather tenuous if it is not docum= ented. =A0Wouldn't a better route be something like > > =A0if (ACPI < 2.0) > =A0 =A0oldCode(); > =A0else > =A0 =A0newCodeForNewACPI(); > > so that it will always work for everyone without having to build a specia= l kernel? =A0After all, I went from a working system to a hung system which= is not the best upgrade path... ;-) Well it's hard to test stuff out without the hardware. :) And it's quite possible a lot of silly looking issues are actually working around real bugs in the hardware. I'm glad this issue was solved so quickly for you. Let's hope we can get you onto testing out HEAD (in a separate partition!) so we can ensure we don't break the basic stuff. :) Adrian