On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:27:20PM +0200, Stefan Unterweger wrote: > * Stefan Unterweger on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 12:43:22AM +0200: > > As far as I understood from some ancient [FreeBSD] mailinglist > > threads, in theory it should be possible to somehow do > > something such that the kernel loads patched ACPI tables which > > have those particular bugs corrected. > > Finally I've found that particular post again, and have been able > to fix the broken DSDT to some extent. With some dirty patchwork > acpi_load_dsdt now loads my custom table, and `shutdown -p -h` > succeeds in turning off the machine, without any more warnings. > > A few questions'd remain, though: > > - I don't suppose that there would be some "official" point in > the ACPI driver where such workarounds would "belong"? The code > looks clear enough to me, but I "speak" neither enough C nor > ACPI to be sure... > > - The patch seems almost too easy to me, but I'm not yet made > that much progress in learning C. With all that memcpy going > around, I have the uneasy feeling that I might be introducing > some nasty memory holes... > > The patch is against 4.6-release, since that's the version I was > planning to put on the machine. > > > Regards, > s//un > > > > --- acpi.c.orig Tue May 11 18:07:10 2010 > +++ acpi.c Tue May 11 17:59:56 2010 > @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ > #define APMDEV_NORMAL 0 > #define APMDEV_CTL 8 > > +#include "custom_dsdt.h"
I assume you forgot to cvs add the custom_dsdt.h header there. -0- -- Celebrate Hannibal Day this year. Take an elephant to lunch.
