On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 06:55:28AM +0900, Kyoung Jae Seo wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 02:00:44PM +0300, Özgür Kazancci wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Mike, just wanted to ask if you've had any chance of committing anything > > regarding the issue? Few months have passed and I'm just curious about the > > issue: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=147626115403928&w=2 > > > > Thanks, > > Happy New Year OpenBSD! > > > > Hi > > OpenBSD stock kernel might not be able to boot in most of newer HP > laptops. My pavilion also fails to boot because OpenBSD kernel does not > have ACPI CMOS RTC handler. > > Can you try booting kernel with ec disabled? You don't have to disable > it in laptop's bios just configure kernel before booting. > > To have better idea of what is actually causing the problem you can > compile kernel with #define ACPI_DEBUG and boot with it. If it's indeed > hp ACPI CMOS issue it will fail with message : Unsupported region space > 5 when kernel crashes. > > I have a wip patch based on linux's implementation but it's too > invasive and hacky right now for sharing. As soon as I get more time > I'll open up discussion in tech@ after tidying things up. > > There was discussion on FreeBSD bugs lists of how to handle hp laptop's > acpi cmos some time ago but developers could not agree on resolution. > > For those interested : > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2016-February/016620.html > https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/HP_Envy_6Z-1100 > > Thanks. >
Looks like we do need something like what Kyoung Jae Seo says. I'm happy to look at a diff but at the moment I don't have the hardware to look into this (or much free time). Even if the diff is rough, it's probably better to see what you have earlier rather than later. -ml
