Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 21:30:04 GMT From: Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz> To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/121504: [patch] Correctly set hw.acpi.osname on certain machines Message-ID: <200811022130.mA2LU4ja063200@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/121504; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kern/121504: [patch] Correctly set hw.acpi.osname on certain machines Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:59:02 -0400 --nextPart19176370.nKuXPQD2aR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 31 October 2008, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > If you are still feeling adventurous, please try the attached > patch. Note that _OSI is very different from _OS_ and we cannot > reuse "hw.acpi.osname" tunable here. First of all, _OSI method > must be able to match multiple entries, not just predefined OS > strings, e.g., "3.0 Thermal Model", "Extended Address Space > Descriptor", etc. although nobody really uses these 'feature group > strings' for their BIOS implementations. (Ideally, if there is a > device driver which implemented the feature, the driver is > responsible for registering its capabilities to this table.) > > With the attached patch, you can add multiple entries by setting > "hw.acpi.supported_osi" tunable and they must be comma-separated, > e.g.: Still no change on my system, but it seems that this would be good to=20 get in as it might help other people. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry amistry@am-productions.biz AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/ --nextPart19176370.nKuXPQD2aR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkkOFJcACgkQxqA5ziudZT04VwCdEw8KJL/kTofrccYWCAJIfLq0 shsAoK9wWQe3cR/pP6ARj5tbveUvdovx =UHQt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart19176370.nKuXPQD2aR--
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