On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, David O'Brien wrote:
I'm convinced that if we are going to keep insisting that ACPI is enabled
by default, we need to gather the various fixed AML's and commit them to
the tree. I can't decide if they should be ports, or in /usr/src.
What are the copyright issues
On 16-Jan-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
Joel M. Baldwin wrote:
I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad ACPI asl's
on them. I know that my Abit BP6 sure has problems. As a result I
can't run ACPI.
What are those of us with these motherboards supposed to to?
I realize that
On 16-Jan-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
Nate Lawson wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
Repeat: These machines work fine under Windows; the problem
is not the BIOS, it's the OS's ASL interpreter.
There's another wrinkle in that the interpreter is supplied by Intel.
Some
John Baldwin wrote:
On 16-Jan-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
Joel M. Baldwin wrote:
I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad ACPI asl's
on them. I know that my Abit BP6 sure has problems. As a result I
can't run ACPI.
What are those of us with these motherboards supposed to to?
On 17-Jan-2003 Peter Schultz wrote:
John Baldwin wrote:
On 16-Jan-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
Joel M. Baldwin wrote:
I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad ACPI asl's
on them. I know that my Abit BP6 sure has problems. As a result I
can't run ACPI.
What are those
John Baldwin wrote:
For Intel, this is a win-win.
For FreeBSD, unless Windows adopts the same code (which it will
not do, since doing so will limit their market, just as using
the code is currently limiting FreeBSD's market), it's a lose-lose.
Are you offering to write a new ACPI
On 17-Jan-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
John Baldwin wrote:
For Intel, this is a win-win.
For FreeBSD, unless Windows adopts the same code (which it will
not do, since doing so will limit their market, just as using
the code is currently limiting FreeBSD's market), it's a lose-lose.
Are
I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad ACPI asl's
on them. I know that my Abit BP6 sure has problems. As a result I
can't run ACPI.
What are those of us with these motherboards supposed to to?
I realize that we can use acpidump to get the asl, correct it,
and then recompile
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From: Joel M. Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:08 AM
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Subject: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards
I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad
ACPI asl's on them. I know that my Abit BP6 sure has
problems
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:44:20AM -0600, Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote:
You might ask that question on the ACPI development list. I think there
are several people who have contributed patched ASL's for machines that
are broken. Here's a link:
Acpi-devel mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[From address modified because I don't want every message in this
thread to end up in my personal mailbox. I'll read them in the
list, thank you.]
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 06:07:45AM -0800, Joel M. Baldwin wrote:
I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad ACPI asl's
on them. I
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:35:35AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 06:07:45AM -0800, Joel M. Baldwin wrote:
I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad ACPI asl's
on them. I know that my Abit BP6 sure has problems. As a result I
can't run ACPI.
What
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
It sound like a good idea. However, there is a lot of isssues evolved.
First, a DSDT table can and will be generated autmatically on the POST,
because at least the memory controller can have different configurations
depending on the total amount of the
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:46:46AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
It sound like a good idea. However, there is a lot of isssues evolved.
First, a DSDT table can and will be generated autmatically on the POST,
because at least the memory controller can
Joel M. Baldwin wrote:
I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad ACPI asl's
on them. I know that my Abit BP6 sure has problems. As a result I
can't run ACPI.
What are those of us with these motherboards supposed to to?
I realize that we can use acpidump to get the asl,
Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote:
You might ask that question on the ACPI development list. I think there
are several people who have contributed patched ASL's for machines that
are broken. Here's a link:
Acpi-devel mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
Cagle, John (ISS-Houston) wrote:
You might ask that question on the ACPI development list. I think there
are several people who have contributed patched ASL's for machines that
are broken. Here's a link:
Acpi-devel mailing list
[EMAIL
Nate Lawson wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
Repeat: These machines work fine under Windows; the problem
is not the BIOS, it's the OS's ASL interpreter.
There's another wrinkle in that the interpreter is supplied by Intel.
Some difficulties were _introduced_ by them,
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