Re: acpi on new gateway laptops

[Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, William Morgan wrote:
> Excerpts (reformatted) from Nate Lawson's mail of 17 Nov 2003 (EST):
> > Get the data from the DSDT.  Dump it with acpidmp, search for PNP0C09,
> > then write down the resources.  Mine is below:
>
> Hm, mine looks like this:
>
>   Device(H_EC) {
>       Name(_HID, 0x090cd041)
>       Name(_UID, 0x1)
>       Method(_CRS) {
>           Name(BFFR, Buffer(0x12) {0x47, 0x1, 0x62, 0x0, 0x62, 0x0, 0x0, 0x1, 0x47, 0x1, 0x66, 0x0, 0x66, 0x0, 0x0, 0x1, 0x79, 0x0 })
>           Return(BFFR)
>       }
>       OperationRegion(ECR_, EmbeddedControl, 0x0, 0xff)
>       ...
>   }
>
> So I'm guessing that this also corresponds to control reg=0x66 and data
> reg=0x62 as I see those two numbers in the buffer. So I think I should be able
> to use an ECDT that's identical to yours, except the EC_ID field (which in my
> case is "\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.H_EC")....

Looks right but you need to get your _GPE bit also. I think it's 0x79
but you really need to parse the buffer to be sure.  There is a flag to
acpidmp to parse buffer contents.

-Nate


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