Re: ACPI systems without legacy mode

2010-08-31 Thread Marco Peereboom
Now that release is done I am not opposed to this. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 03:58:43PM +0200, Niklas Hallqvist wrote: > On 08/08/10 12:18, Mark Kettenis wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:57:20 +0800 > >> > >> Is there someone who would be willing to test this diff on a physical > >> machine th

Re: ACPI systems without legacy mode

2010-08-31 Thread Niklas Hallqvist
On 08/08/10 12:18, Mark Kettenis wrote: >> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:57:20 +0800 >> >> Is there someone who would be willing to test this diff on a physical >> machine that currently reports "ACPI control unavailable" in dmesg, >> e.g. >> >> acpi0 at bios0: rev 2, ACPI control unavailable > I'm pr

Re: ACPI systems without legacy mode

2010-08-08 Thread Mark Kettenis
> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:57:20 +0800 > > Is there someone who would be willing to test this diff on a physical > machine that currently reports "ACPI control unavailable" in dmesg, > e.g. > > acpi0 at bios0: rev 2, ACPI control unavailable I'm pretty sure such hardware does not exist, at least

Re: ACPI systems without legacy mode

2010-08-08 Thread Nathanael Rensen
Is there someone who would be willing to test this diff on a physical machine that currently reports "ACPI control unavailable" in dmesg, e.g. acpi0 at bios0: rev 2, ACPI control unavailable If you have such a machine, but you are not able to test the diff, I'd still be interested to know the mod

ACPI systems without legacy mode

2010-08-07 Thread Nathanael Rensen
Some ACPI systems do not support legacy mode and do not provide an smi_cmd port within the FADT. This is mentioned in the following: http://www.acpi.info/DOWNLOADS/ACPIspec40a.pdf (p119, SMI_CMD) http://wiki.osdev.org/ACPI (Switching to ACPI Mode) OpenBSD aborts ACPI initialisation if the FADT do