From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 6 20:57: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409B437B403 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 20:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8743do06596 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 21:03:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200109070403.f8743do06596@mass.dis.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: ACPI: HEADS UP (ACPI CA update) Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 21:03:39 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just updated the ACPI CA components to the latest Intel release. You can read the release notes on Intel's website (http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi). In addition, I've changed the default ACPI initialisation to the full, recommended-by-the-standard set of passes over the namespace. This has the potential to cause problems on some systems. If you are already using the debug.acpi.avoid sysctl, you will get the old behaviour (since the avoid mechanism does not affect some parts of the namespace initialisation). If the latest code locks up during device probes, try ok set debug.acpi.avoid="" at the loader prompt. Outstanding issues: - The ACPI timecounter does not work on some ALi chipsets. - ACPI mode results in some PCI devices not being configured by the BIOS. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message