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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:10:05 -0800
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:37:11PM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> Exact.  I am completly wrong here.
> 
> You should consider to do something like that instead:
> 
> 
>                          Method(_OFF) {
>                              If(LOr(\_SB_.C020, LEqual(0x0, 0x1))) {
>                                 Store ("_OFF: already off ?", Debug)
>                             } Else {
>                                 C132(0x3, 0x0)
>                             }
>                         }
> 
> 

What about using NOOP instead of the Store?  Would that work also?

> point 2) can not work here.
> An _OFF method must return nothing (see acpi specs 2.0b, 7.1.2)
> OSPM will call _OFF, then call _STA in order to check if
> the power ressource is really off.
> 
> Note also that the debug statement is only here to check if
> "LOr(\_SB_.C020, LEqual(0x0, 0x1)" is really for that.  I am
> really not sure here.  Hard to follow this ASL since
> the names are not, well, the best that can be choosen..

I'm just starting to read the *gack* specs.  What did 1.0b say about
_OFF returning a value?  I'd lay odds the ASM is coded to v1 and not
v2...


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