Re: acpi on new gateway laptops

[Ducrot Bruno <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:07:30PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 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.
> 

Not in the backported version IIRC.

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