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Date:      Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:25:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.org, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Subject:   Re: ACPICA vs. Sony VAIO etc.. [PATCH]
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010104102528.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <2001-01-04-15-09-20%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr>

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On 04-Jan-01 Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> On  3/01, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
>| Hmm, the CPU Speedstep option doesn't make any difference my system. 
>| However,
>| mine locks up after probing the embedded controller:
>| 
>| acpi0: <DELL   I 5000 > on motherboard
> 
> Is that a Sony VAIO? :)

No, but there is more than one type of laptop in the world, and we want ACPI to
work on as many of them as we can. :)  Peter's fix is not VAIO specific, it is
a fix for a bug in the actual AML interpreter, so it might easily make other
laptops that were broken work as well.

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