Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:36:30 +0200 From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell laptops Message-ID: <20060713173630.GM17014@poupinou.org> In-Reply-To: <20060713153712.GB71104@in-addr.com> References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111252150.24473@sea.ntplx.net> <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu> <44B3EDA6.8050608@centtech.com> <20060713094816.GI17014@poupinou.org> <20060713153712.GB71104@in-addr.com>
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:37:12AM -0400, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:48:16AM +0200, Bruno Ducrot wrote: > > > > This method is called in order to handle an SCI interrupt, specifically > > by \GPE._L19() (it will call in fact NEVT() which may call NEVT()). > > Forgive my ignorance, but what is a SCI interrupt? A classical interrupt that is supposed to replace the SMI one for some hardware subsystem, so that the OS will handle those instead of the APM bios (to be short). > I.e. what could the outcome of the above bug in the ASL code be? It might be possible that notifications change for other ACPI component being fired, or not, for processor and the battery subsystem at least. I think also it's a minor bug. > Could it be related > to the failure to properly sleep on these laptops? It's unrelated. -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.
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