On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:13:24AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: > | I don't see why the patch has any effect. What is happening is that > | one of the methods called during the init of the ACPI EC accesses an > | undefined variable. Due to that the call ultimately fails and the > | EC is not attached. I don't know why that changes with the patch in > | FreeBSD land though. > > From what you understand now, is the situation fixable in any > practically meaningful way -- in NetBSD or FreeBSD, in the confines of > that small code diff piece that you saw in my report? > > Thanks for looking!
Well, the question is now why the PPC_ symbol starts to appear with the supposedly slightly different processing order of the patch. I guess I need to start digging deeply into the acpica vm for that :( I don't think the patch really fixes the problem, just changes enough to make it disappear for some magic reason. Joerg
