From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nate Lawson Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica acfreebsd.h Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:10:26 -0800 (PST) Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20040311200951.O67848@root.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Moore, Robert" Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org THANK YOU. 0311 looks like an EXCELLENT release. -Nate > -----Original Message----- > From: Nate Lawson [mailto:nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org] > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:27 PM > To: Brian Buchanan > Cc: Moore, Robert; acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/dev/acpica acfreebsd.h > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Brian Buchanan wrote: > > I hacked the ASL for my ThinkPad T40p so that "FreeBSD" was treated as > an > > equivalent to "Windows 2001". After your change, the Fn+F8 screen > > expansion toggle stopped working. > > > > I've attached the acpidump output you requested. My local > modification > > was to add after the check for "Windows 2001": > > > > If (LEqual (\SCMP (\_OS, "FreeBSD"), Zero)) > > { > > Store (0x02, \WNTF) > > } > > The issue is that we don't support the _OSI method yet, otherwise we > could > advertise FreeBSD as being both Windows 2k and XP compatible. Your best > workaround is to just unconditionally store 0x02 into \WNTF at the end > of > the \_SB._INI function. Since the custom AML will only be loaded by > FreeBSD, you won't affect other OS's with this change. > > Bob, any word on _OSI implementation? > > -Nate ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click