mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) wrote: > bea...@sdf.org (beaker) writes: > > >Out of curiosity I swapped in LMDE6 (Mint, Debian ed.) and ACPI works just > >fine, > >no weirdness at all. Suggests it's a problem with NetBSD's ACPI > >implementation > >which I'd guess is old and dated. Not a huge issue on such an old laptop > >but > >still, maybe worth freshening the code? > > The ACPI code isn't that old. > > My guess is that a) the ACPI code in BIOS handles the _STA evaluation in > a strange way and b) our acpi_bat driver isn't graceful enough about a > failed _STA evaluation. > > ACPI defines that a non-existent _STA is to be handled like a "device > present and operational" status. Now, an "insufficient memory" error > isn't the same as a "object does not exist" error, but maybe it should > be handled the same (so far we don't distinguish between errors anyway). >
Ah okay, thanks for explanation; I'll just live with the quirks for now. -B
