Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:21:06 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alienware acpi problem Message-ID: <20060726192106.GA4693@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200607261505.38960.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20060724215014.GA89464@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200607241823.24477.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060725201556.GA97140@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200607261505.38960.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:05:38PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > You have some of the most incompetent BIOS writers I've ever seen working on > your machine I'm afraid. It's a Phoenix BIOS. > First off, there is no LNKH device on your system. > You do have various pci_link devices. Four for APIC: ALKA, ALKB, ALKC, and > ALKD, and four for non-APIC: LNKA, LNKB, LNKC, LNKD. Not only that, but they > all live in \_SB_.PCI0.PCIB. Some places refer to LNKH via > \_SB_.PCI0.PCIB.LNKH (as do all places for LNKA - LNKD it seems) but others > refer to it as \_SB_.PCI0.LNKH. Anyways, I think you might be fine if you > always use 'device apic', as the PCI interrupt routing tables for the APIC > case don't seem to reference LNKH. I think it will only go down in flames > this way if you disable APIC (via hint or not including 'device apic' in your > kernel config). Thanks for the help. The asl file might as well be greek or chinese or any other language that I don't speak. :( I'll need to follow up tomorrow because the laptop is currently in another location. I don't recall removing "device apic", so perhaps I somehow munged the hints files. -- Steve
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