Re: [PATCH] Abort powerd when no cpufreq(4) support is found

2012-04-09 Thread Nate Lawson
The message is fine, but I think an error code of 0 is wrong. Powerd didn't start, whereas 0 means the daemon launched successfully. On Apr 9, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Robert Millan wrote: Hi, I'd like to check-in this patch so that powerd aborts gracefully when there's no cpufreq(4) support for

Re: paper on reverse-engineering drivers

2011-05-26 Thread Nate Lawson
On 5/26/2011 1:19 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 26/05/2011 22:25 Nate Lawson said the following: This might be a useful source for making ACPI compatible with Windows. http://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/revnic I had thought of a project like this before. My idea was to take QEMU and map PCI config

Re: Atheros 9285 Atheros AR8131

2011-04-06 Thread Nate Lawson
On 4/6/2011 1:00 PM, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, March 28, 2011 2:06:27 pm John Baldwin wrote: We've never figured out what is zeroing the registers in the PCI-PCI bridges. I suspect it is not something in the ASL, but is a side effect of some BIOS code that runs in SMM when ACPI is turned

Re: Atheros 9285 Atheros AR8131

2011-04-06 Thread Nate Lawson
Don't thank me, thank John Baldwin. Glad it works! On 4/6/2011 3:43 PM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Great work Nate now I know I will have a chance for my notebook acer5050... I tested the patch in the 8.2 version 4bits and it worked (patch done) all exept for the ftd device (that does

Re: pci buses missing from suspend/resume powerstate

2011-04-02 Thread Nate Lawson
On 4/2/2011 2:34 PM, J.R. Oldroyd wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 11:29:58 -0400, J.R. Oldroyd f...@opal.com wrote: [suspend/resume of network cards] pcib0 pci0 hostb0 pcib1 pci1 vgapci0 vgapm0 scpm0

Re: ideas for _PSD/_CSD/_TSD

2010-11-18 Thread Nate Lawson
On 11/18/2010 11:09 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: I am trying to solicit some architectural/design ideas for implementing logic that would honor ACPI _PSD/_CSD/_TSD descriptions of processor dependency domains. Well, I am primarily interested in _PSD, but I think that some general principles

Re: Removing acpi.ko support

2010-10-28 Thread Nate Lawson
On 10/28/2010 9:54 AM, John Baldwin wrote: [ cc'ing acpi@ to be safe, but I think the topic warrants the wider audience of arch@ ] I think we should drop support for having acpi load as a module for i386. It adds extra complication and hacks to the i386 APIC and interrupt code that are

Re: CPU C-state storange on Panasonic TOUGH BOOK CF-R9

2010-09-14 Thread Nate Lawson
Andriy Gapon wrote: on 13/09/2010 20:07 Andriy Gapon said the following: I am also going to take a look how Linux and OpenSolaris name the C-states. Well, Linux does what you suggested, it uses index of a C-state as its name. There is one difference from our current code - if a C-state is