On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <pine.bsf.4.05.9904270858150.36113-100...@herring.nlsystems.com> > Doug Rabson writes: > : I have the ACPI spec and I'm starting to get to grips with it. Initially, > : I will be trying to use the static device configuration tables but power > : management, docking and all that other good stuff should come eventually. > > One problem that I've had in trying to use the acpi spec to implement > something is that the acpi tables on my laptop get overwritten early > in the boot process on my Vaio. The driver would have to copy the > tables. > > By "early" I mean before the login prompt.
I had a problem with that. I had to tweak machdep.c to believe the bios version of extmem so that the ACPI area wasn't overwritten. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
