Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:53:49 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Joe Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: com1 incorrectly associated with ttyd1, com2 with ttyd0 Message-ID: <200512011153.50287.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051130181757.GA29686@svcolo.com> References: <20051117050336.GB67653@svcolo.com> <20051117220358.GA65127@svcolo.com> <20051130181757.GA29686@svcolo.com>
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On Wednesday 30 November 2005 01:17 pm, Joe Rhett wrote: > > Console initialization uses the flags to decide the console port(s), > > so swapped flags probably give swapped console ports. > > I don't know if this is related, but ACPI also seems to find devices which > are disabled (ie parallel parts, etc) and then complains because it can't > allocate resources for them. > > It sounds like ACPI isn't reading the BIOS data correctly at all. What > debug options can I enable to get more information? 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. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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