Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:26:00 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>, ache@nagual.pp.ru, current@FreeBSD.org, acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ACPI: problem with fdc resource allocation Message-ID: <3BCFE398.51EA76F@FreeBSD.org> References: <200110022356.f92Nuit03147@mass.dis.org> <3BBADCB7.456D51AD@FreeBSD.org>
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Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > Mike Smith wrote: > > > This just isn't going to work. The _CRS data stream stops at byte 0x17, > > and these extra items are simply mis-aimed. > > > > The 0x19 should really be 0x11, and the 0x1c should really be 0x14, ie. > > this is a BIOS bug, and should be reported to the vendor. (It should > > also have failed the Microsoft ACPI validation suite...) > > > > The correct action should probably be to silently discard the write > > operations outside of a defined buffer, and return Zeroes or Ones for a > > read outside a buffer. > > Do you have a patch to test this approach? While I understand that the best way to > resolve the problem is to convince vendors to fix their ACPI implementations, but > obviously this isn't going to happen any time soon, so appropriate workarround is > really a must. The problem is still here as of today's kernel. Please do something about it. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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