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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:07:09 -0800
From: Joe Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: com1 incorrectly associated with ttyd1, com2 with ttyd0
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:53:49AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> No, it is reading it right.  When you disable a device in ACPI it merely 
> doesn't assign resources to it.  The OS can assign resources to it on its own 
> though and re-enable the device.  FreeBSD currently doesn't implement enough 
> to get that right though.
 
So what's involved in simply having it say
Found <device>: disabled in BIOS

instead of half a dozen complaints for each disabled device?

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Joe Rhett
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SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation