On 2014/05/20 11:23, Daniel Dickman wrote: > > On May 20, 2014, at 11:08 AM, Lampshade <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello > > > > Is there any chance to include to current and in future to 5.6 newer > > version of acpica > > package? Currently in ports there is acpica-20111123p0.tgz but ACPI > > Component > > Architecture is under active development and current release is 20140424.
I tried updating to the latest version about a year ago, but decided it was too much of a pain to be worth spending any more time on (we basically just use this port for the disassembler). Note that current versions require a newer version of bison; newer bison doesn't work with OpenBSD's m4. > well someone has to do the work... > > in this case I've gotten it up to 2012-07-11 which works for me on i386. > patch is here if someone wants to commit it or give me an ok. > http://www.dickman.org/openbsd/patches/devel_acpica.diff patch: **** malformed patch at line 31: @@ -24,20 +23,19 @@ NO_TEST = Yes > > I think it > > would be useful for lot of modern laptop users to disable Nvidia GPU and > > other > > interfaces. > > > can you explain this a bit more? I'm not sure I'm fully understanding this > bit. > I'm guessing it's about decompiling/modifying/recompiling tables; but this won't help - OpenBSD only uses aml from the tables in the bios, it does not support reading custom aml from disk like some OS do.
