From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 27 15:24:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C17C915056 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:24:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA38950; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:24:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:24:13 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Warner Losh Cc: Alex Zepeda , Peter Mutsaers , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suspend mode broken since one week ago In-Reply-To: <199904271352.HAA17555@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Doug Rabson writes: > : I have the ACPI spec and I'm starting to get to grips with it. Initially, > : I will be trying to use the static device configuration tables but power > : management, docking and all that other good stuff should come eventually. > > One problem that I've had in trying to use the acpi spec to implement > something is that the acpi tables on my laptop get overwritten early > in the boot process on my Vaio. The driver would have to copy the > tables. > > By "early" I mean before the login prompt. I had a problem with that. I had to tweak machdep.c to believe the bios version of extmem so that the ACPI area wasn't overwritten. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message