From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 30 18:53:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABCA01065670 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:53:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: from uriah.heep.sax.de (uriah.heep.sax.de [213.240.137.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 546BF8FC25 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by uriah.heep.sax.de (Postfix, from userid 107) id 97C6145; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:53:13 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:53:13 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091230185313.GC1616@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <20091230082556.GD1637@uriah.heep.sax.de> <200912300839.47463.jhb@freebsd.org> <20091230143943.GA1616@uriah.heep.sax.de> <200912301122.28030.jhb@freebsd.org> <4B3B9079.1060208@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B3B9079.1060208@gmail.com> X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5E84 F980 C3CA FD4B B584 1070 F48C A81B 69A8 5873 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 hangs on boot with ACPI enabled X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:53:15 -0000 As Dana Myers wrote: > I'm sure it's a side-effect of switching into ACPI mode. > The Solaris port of ACPI CA has an option to leave the > system in legacy mode during ACPI initialization which I've > used to diagnose several instances of PCI config space > being trampled by the ACPI-mode switch (done by SMM > BIOS code). Sometimes an update to the BIOS solves > the problem, but usually not. The strange thing is that this very same mainboard with the very same BIOS used to be my main FreeBSD workhorse in the past (until about a year ago), when it ran fine including ACPI (with a FreeBSD version of approximately 6.x). The only thing that changed now is the configuration of the remaining peripherals. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)