Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 07:00:22 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Cc: othermark <atkin901@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: acpi on msi-9218 (-current) swaps sio0 and sio1 Message-ID: <200607060700.22376.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <e8gvhe$dct$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <e81i17$h7u$1@sea.gmane.org> <200607050838.44324.jhb@freebsd.org> <e8gvhe$dct$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Wednesday 05 July 2006 14:14, othermark wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 29 June 2006 17:51, othermark wrote:
> >>
> >> With acpi loaded on a msi-9218 motherboard, I'm seeing sio0 and sio1
> >> get 'swapped.' Even though the kernel is compiled for console on 0x3f8,
> >> I've had to change the /etc/ttys to use ttyd1 so login is displayed when
> >> the system is booted.
> >>
> >> Empirically, this tells me that 0x3f8 is correct for sio0 (since the
> >> kernel and boot loader display fine using it as comconsole).
> >>
> >> Is there a way to force this to be consistant? This is -current from
> >> Jun
> >> 8. I will try a more recent kernel soon. The following is a verbose
> >> boot log.
> >
> > This is because your BIOS lists them backwards in the ASL. There isn't a
> > workaround currently short of fixing your ASL to list them in the
> > COM1/COM2 order and building a custom dsdt.
>
> Many thanks for your input,
>
> So would it be sufficient in the _INI method, just to swap the
> order of initialization (I'm guessing here) for the COMA and COMB sections?
> COMA and COMB both have full resource templates for all possible legal
> settings.
No, you have to swap the COMA and COMB devices themselves.
> 2535 Method (_INI, 0, NotSerialized)
> 2536 {
> 2537 Acquire (NSMX, 0xFFFF)
> 2538 Store (0x00, LDN)
> 2539 Store (ACTV, ^FDC.FDCS)
> 2540 Store (0x01, LDN)
> 2541 Store (ACTV, ^LPT.LPTS)
> 2542 Store (0x02, LDN)
> 2543 Store (ACTV, ^COMB.SP2S)
> 2544 Store (0x03, LDN)
> 2545 Store (ACTV, ^COMA.SP1S)
> 2546 Store (0x05, LDN)
> 2547 Store (ACTV, ^PS2M.PSMS)
> 2548 Store (KBST, Local0)
> 2549 Store (Local0, KBST)
> 2550 Store (MSST, Local0)
> 2551 Store (Local0, MSST)
>
>
> full (corrected for errors) .asl is here:
>
> http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~darkmark/msi-9618.asl
>
--
John Baldwin
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