Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 03:20:23 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Grosse Bley <gandalf@nm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/59248: 4.9-RELEASE, ACPI Panic with Dell Latitude D600 Message-ID: <200311131120.hADBKN7K050511@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/59248; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Andre Grosse Bley <gandalf@nm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/59248: 4.9-RELEASE, ACPI Panic with Dell Latitude D600 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:15:02 +0100 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> said the following on freebsd-hackers: > Ah, the problem is that ACPI tries to sleep from a task, which is not safe > to do. This is not easy to fix. :( Actually, it may not be too hard. In current, ACPI uses its own thread to run the tasks in, so stable would need the same sort of thing. Basically, ACPI needs to start up a kproc and needs to have its own taskqueue again that uses this kproc for its execution context.
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