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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:24:13 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: suspend mode broken since one week ago 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904272322530.36113-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199904271352.HAA17555@harmony.village.org>

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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904270858150.36113-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> Doug Rabson writes:
> : I have the ACPI spec and I'm starting to get to grips with it. Initially,
> : I will be trying to use the static device configuration tables but power
> : management, docking and all that other good stuff should come eventually.
> 
> One problem that I've had in trying to use the acpi spec to implement
> something is that the acpi tables on my laptop get overwritten early
> in the boot process on my Vaio.  The driver would have to copy the
> tables.
> 
> By "early" I mean before the login prompt.

I had a problem with that. I had to tweak machdep.c to believe the bios
version of extmem so that the ACPI area wasn't overwritten.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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