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 we can use acpidump to get the asl, correct it, >> and then recompile it using iasl from the acpicatools port, to >> generate the aml that can be used during boot. > > There are several things you can do, one of which is what you > have suggested, though you do not go far enough: > > 1) Correct the ASL, make a file modification so that > FreeBSD can run on the system with the incorrect > ASL, and then *notify the motherboard and BIOS > vendors of the correction, and the reason for it*. > > 2) The ASL works *fine* with the Windows ACPI code; > *correct* the FreeBSD code so that it *also* works > fine for FreeBSD (i.e. if the FreeBSD code were a > line-for-line duplicate of the Windows code, then > FreeBSD would not be having these problems, where > Windows does not, would it...).
Well, the problem here is that we don't write this code, Intel does. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
