Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-18 Thread Gavin Atkinson
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 surro

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-17 Thread John Baldwin
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 lo

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-17 Thread Terry Lambert
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 ne

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-17 Thread John Baldwin
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

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-17 Thread Peter Schultz
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 sup

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-17 Thread John Baldwin
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. >

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-17 Thread John Baldwin
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? >> >

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-16 Thread Terry Lambert
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

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-16 Thread Nate Lawson
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 >

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-16 Thread Terry Lambert
"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] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/list

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-16 Thread Terry Lambert
"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 th

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-16 Thread Ducrot Bruno
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

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-16 Thread Nate Lawson
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

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-16 Thread Ducrot Bruno
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. > >

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-16 Thread David O'Brien
[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

Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-16 Thread Ducrot Bruno
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 PROTECT

RE: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-16 Thread Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)
ginal Message- > From: Joel M. Baldwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards > > > > I gather that there are quite a few Motherboards with bad > ACPI asl

bad ACPL asl's on motherboards

2003-01-16 Thread Joel M. Baldwin
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