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Date:      Thu, 6 Sep 2001 23:03:17 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ACPI: HEADS UP (ACPI CA update)
Message-ID:  <20010906230317.Z81307@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200109070403.f8743do06596@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:03:39PM -0700
References:  <200109070403.f8743do06596@mass.dis.org>

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* Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> [010906 22:57] wrote:
> 
> 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.

Any chance this will fix the problem with sound (pcm) that I
mailed you about earlier?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'

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