Sean Bruno writes: | I'm noting that newer machines are completely hosed if we attempt to | probe for bios values. I'm proposing this change. | | -bash-4.2$ p4 diff -du //depot/yahoo/ybsd_7/src/sys/i386/i386/bios.c | --- //depot/yahoo/ybsd_7/src/sys/i386/i386/bios.c 2011-09-16 | 22:47:30.000000000 0000 | +++ /home/seanbru/ybsd_7/src/sys/i386/i386/bios.c 2011-09-16 | 22:47:30.000000000 0000 | @@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ | char *p; | | /* | + * Don't do bios probing if acpi is enabled, its | + * pointless and breaks on newer systems | + */ | + if (!resource_disabled("acpi", 0)) | + return; | + /* | * BIOS32 Service Directory, PCI BIOS | */ |
That seems reasonable to me. Doug A. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"