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Date:      Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:07:09 -0800
From:      Joe Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: com1 incorrectly associated with ttyd1, com2 with ttyd0
Message-ID:  <20051205200709.GC13194@svcolo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200512011153.50287.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <20051117050336.GB67653@svcolo.com> <20051117220358.GA65127@svcolo.com> <20051130181757.GA29686@svcolo.com> <200512011153.50287.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:53:49AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> No, it is reading it right.  When you disable a device in ACPI it merely 
> doesn't assign resources to it.  The OS can assign resources to it on its own 
> though and re-enable the device.  FreeBSD currently doesn't implement enough 
> to get that right though.
 
So what's involved in simply having it say
Found <device>: disabled in BIOS

instead of half a dozen complaints for each disabled device?

-- 
Joe Rhett
senior geek
SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation



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