Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, Could you put the following lines into /boot/loader.conf and send dmesg output again? debug.acpi.layer=ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS debug.acpi.level=ACPI_LV_ERROR [sent privately to not spam the lists with my dump files] On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: FYI, I

RE: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread Moore, Robert
]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815 Hi, Could you put the following lines into /boot/loader.conf and send dmesg output again? debug.acpi.layer=ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS debug.acpi.level=ACPI_LV_ERROR

Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread Yann Berthier
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: Hi, Could you put the following lines into /boot/loader.conf and send dmesg output again? debug.acpi.layer=ACPI_ALL_COMPONENTS debug.acpi.level=ACPI_LV_ERROR Of course, here we go :) [sent privately to not spam the lists

Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Moore, Robert wrote: This looks like the (in)famous implicit return problem that is in some Toshiba ASL files. Method(_CRS) { CRS_(0x10) } This does NOT actually return a value and the ASL code is incorrect. It has to be:

RE: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread Moore, Robert
-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815 Moore, Robert wrote: This looks like the (in)famous implicit return problem that is in some Toshiba ASL files. Method(_CRS) { CRS_(0x10) } This does NOT actually return a value

Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Moore, Robert wrote: Well, the *real* problem is that there is no Return AML opcode in the control method and the interpreter therefore does not return a value. However, to answer your question with a question: Would you ask a C compiler, or any other compiler for that matter, to

RE: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread Moore, Robert
: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815 Moore, Robert wrote: Well, the *real* problem is that there is no Return AML opcode in the control method and the interpreter therefore does not return a value. However, to answer your question with a question: Would you ask a C

Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread Yann Berthier
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Moore, Robert wrote: This looks like the (in)famous implicit return problem that is in some Toshiba ASL files. Method(_CRS) { CRS_(0x10) } This does NOT actually return a value and the ASL code is incorrect. It

Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread Terry Lambert
Moore, Robert wrote: I think you are missing something: 1) BIOS vendor writes ASL 2) BIOS vendor compiles ASL to AML byte-code 3) BIOS vendor puts AML into BIOS 4) OS gets AML from the BIOS 5) OS interprets AML The error you are experiencing is in (5). There is no return statement in

RE: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread Moore, Robert
, 2002 3:40 PM To: Moore, Robert Cc: 'Mitsuru IWASAKI'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Grover, Andrew Subject: Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815 Moore, Robert wrote: I think you are missing something: 1) BIOS vendor writes ASL 2) BIOS vendor

Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FWIW, there's historical precedent for this: the DEC VAX/VMS C compiler would imply semicolons for the programmer that forgot them, and a couple of other similar fixups, issue a warning, but the resulting code would run as the programmer most

Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread Terry Lambert
David Schultz wrote: So the worst possible outcome in the failure case is that it fails -- which it already does, without the assumption -- and the best possible outcome is that it succeeds when it wouldn't have. Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't Sometimes.

Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-27 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Terry Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sometimes. But see http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/DWIM.html I understand, but having a different failure is no worse than having a failure, I think. In either case, it doesn't work, even if it doesn't work in an entirely different

Re: [acpi-jp 1735] Re: Call for testers: acpica-unix-20020815

2002-08-26 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
FYI, I have now a can't fetch resources for \\_SB_.PCI0.FNC0.PRT_ - AE_BAD_DATA with acpica-unix-20020815 during boot. I'd like to make sure if AE_BAD_DATA error occurred w/ previous versions (acpica-unix-20020725, 20020611, 20020404...) ? Or first time w/ acpica-unix-20020815 ? Anyway,