From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 20:06:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hardware@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85D1F16A41F; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:06:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: from outbound0.sv.meer.net (outbound0.sv.meer.net [205.217.152.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11ACA43D76; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 20:06:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: from mail.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by outbound0.sv.meer.net (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id jB5K6cew080215; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:06:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: from mail.meer.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.meer.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/meer) with ESMTP id jB5K5kXb015949; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:05:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: (from jrhett@localhost) by mail.meer.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) id jB5K5kSw015947; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:05:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:05:46 -0800 From: Joe Rhett To: Bruce Evans Message-ID: <20051205200546.GB13194@svcolo.com> References: <20051117050336.GB67653@svcolo.com> <200511171030.36633.jhb@freebsd.org> <20051117220358.GA65127@svcolo.com> <20051130181757.GA29686@svcolo.com> <20051201204625.W41849@delplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051201204625.W41849@delplex.bde.org> Organization: svcolo.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: com1 incorrectly associated with ttyd1, com2 with ttyd0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:06:57 -0000 On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 08:58:04PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > It's not clear that disabling in the BIOS should disable for all OSes. What? That's a fairly weird interpretation. If I want to disable inside a given OS, I do that inside the OS. If I want to disable for _ALL_ OSes, then I disable in the BIOS. What reasonable logic can argue otherwise? > Don't know. I avoid ACPI if possible :-). I suspect that FreeBSD can see > ACPI tables but not all BIOS tables, so any soft disabling in the BIOS gets > lost. Can you really use everything without ACPI? What is lost by disabling ACPI? Don't you lose power-down support at the least? (I did look for a FAQ on ACPI and found darn little) -- Joe Rhett senior geek SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation