Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:59:51 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI thermal panics ThinkPad 600X Message-ID: <3E52ACD7.BDC8716@mindspring.com> References: <200302181705.JAA19695@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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Darryl Okahata wrote: > Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > > ACPI gives me hell on my IBM Thinkpad A31, also. Yet since it > > does not crash anything I just leave it be waiting for the day > > when the ACPI hackers have time to fix it :) > > It may not necessarily be a FreeBSD problem (or, not only). While > there may be issues with FreeBSD's ACPI, there are definitely issues > with the A31 BIOS: > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3597168 A more useful reference, I think, is: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3597172 If you add similar code to FreeBSD to detect and patch the BIOS table, this fixes the problem in FreeBSD, as well (though adding the code is somewhat tricky: YMMV, knowledge of both FreeBSD and Linux required; sorry, I do not have a patch against -current). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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