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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:06:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bad ACPL asl's on motherboards
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301161105190.47227-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E26FF8C.45EB637B@mindspring.com>

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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
> "Cagle, John (ISS-Houston)" wrote:
> > You might ask that question on the ACPI development list.  I think there
> > are several people who have contributed patched ASL's for machines that
> > are broken.  Here's a link:
> > 
> > Acpi-devel mailing list
> > Acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-devel
> 
> Repeat: These machines work fine under Windows; the problem
> is not the BIOS, it's the OS's ASL interpreter.

There's another wrinkle in that the interpreter is supplied by Intel.  
Some difficulties were _introduced_ by them, notably the strict var scope
checking.

-Nate


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