Re: [acpi-jp 2672] RE: acipca patches for Intel

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

My acpidump output is here:
   http://www.root.org/~nate/acpi/ibm-acpidump.asl.gz

You can easily see the problem since method _BST returns the value of
a call to _GBST.  Here is a link to my original message with dmesg output:
   http://home.jp.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/showmail/acpi-jp/2408

BTW, I am close to isolating a panic caused by resource lists (in this
case _CRS) overflowing the allocated buffer.

-Nate

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Moore, Robert wrote:
> Please send a listing of the _BST errors that appear on the IBM machines
> and the related DSDT.  This issue isn't really an ACPI 2.0 issue, it
> extends back to ACPI 1.0.  I'd like to solve this once and for all if
> possible.
>
> Bob
>
>
> This patch reverts part of 0619 to fix _BST errors on IBM thinkpads (and
> others.  It appears many ASL versions do not implement the alluded to
> 2.0C copy semantics.
>
> --- dsmthdat.c	Thu Jun 19 17:30:43 2003
> +++ /sys/contrib/dev/a.old/dsmthdat.c	Tue Apr 29 11:36:50 2003
> @@ -392,6 +392,7 @@
>  {
>      ACPI_STATUS             Status;
>      ACPI_NAMESPACE_NODE     *Node;
> +    ACPI_OPERAND_OBJECT     *NewDesc = Object;
>
>
>      ACPI_FUNCTION_TRACE ("DsMethodDataSetValue");
> @@ -410,17 +411,32 @@
>          return_ACPI_STATUS (Status);
>      }
>
>
>


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