Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:24:13 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suspend mode broken since one week ago Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904272322530.36113-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199904271352.HAA17555@harmony.village.org>
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904270858150.36113-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> Doug Rabson writes: > : I have the ACPI spec and I'm starting to get to grips with it. Initially, > : I will be trying to use the static device configuration tables but power > : management, docking and all that other good stuff should come eventually. > > One problem that I've had in trying to use the acpi spec to implement > something is that the acpi tables on my laptop get overwritten early > in the boot process on my Vaio. The driver would have to copy the > tables. > > By "early" I mean before the login prompt. I had a problem with that. I had to tweak machdep.c to believe the bios version of extmem so that the ACPI area wasn't overwritten. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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