Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:50:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH - acpi 0619 Message-ID: <20030713144825.W15136@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20030713192914.37E8C5D08@ptavv.es.net> References: <20030713192914.37E8C5D08@ptavv.es.net>
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote: > OK. I installed the patches on my T30 and saw no clear regressions, > although I'd like to do more testing. I did get many more errors at > boot time, all early in the operation. messages attached. These are due to lack of ECDT support which newer acpica dists now expect. They are harmless. I will be adding ECDT support soon. > Also, after patching, I tried building world and it would not work due > to undefined symbols in the boot/i386/libi386 build. I have put the > errors into the attachment at the top. Thanks, I'll make sure I take care of those. > Observed problems: USB does not recover from suspend. Display > back-light say on after suspend. (Neither of these is different from > the CURRENT code. The USB issue is a problem in general with the USB driver and is being worked on. > Another issue that I recently noted after a complaint that battery > life was worse with FreeBSD than with Linux or Windows. I have noted > that the CPU does not seem to slow even though the system claims that > it is reduced to 50% in economy mode. > > Instead, the CPU always seems to run at 1.8 GHz if it was on AC at > power-up and 1.2 GHz if the system was on battery at power-up. THIS IS > EXACTLY THE SAME THING I SEE WITH APM! So it's not a regression, but > somehow something is simply not right here. And it now appears that the > problem is not specific to T30s or even IBMs as the other report was > not an IBM, but a Compaq. I plan to do further testing of this to > confirm some details. Noted. I haven't looked at our cpu stuff yet but will get to it eventually. The main things I was looking for with the import were regressions. -Nate
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