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Date:      Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:25:54 +0100
From:      Angelo Turetta <aturetta@commit.it>
To:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Dell PowerEdge 1300/500 - bitten by ACPI quirks
Message-ID:  <4911BB02.20102@commit.it>

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I installed RELENG_7 (SNAPSHOT-200805) on an old DELL PowerEdge 
1300/500, and everything went well.

After I built and installed a recent RELENG_7, suddenly the machine will 
panic with "ACPI disabled by blacklist."

I found a recent commit to fix a bug that was actually disabling the 
blacklist check on RELENG_7 before Sep.22, and that accounts for the 
difference I got between the May snapshot and the current RELENG_7.

The acpi_quirks file lists my hardware as:

# Dell PE1300
name:           Dell_PE1300
oem:            FADT "Dell  " "PE1300  "
oem_rev:        FADT <= 1
quirks:         ACPI_Q_BROKEN

# Dell Personal Workstation 1300
name:           Dell_PE1300_2
oem:            FADT "DELL  " "PE1300  "
oem_rev:        FADT <= 1
quirks:         ACPI_Q_BROKEN

In particular, my system matches the second case (uppercase DELL), but 
the comment describes it as a totally different machine which cannot be 
found on Google

Given that I previously used the machine with ACPI enabled without any 
apparent problems, is there any reference as to why it was put on the 
black-list?

And how can I make my system ignore that quirk?

Thanks,
Angelo.

PS: here is an excerpt form dmesg

with ACPI
=====================================
FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE-200805 #0: Sun May 11 15:02:57 UTC 2008
     root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (498.47-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x673  Stepping = 3
 
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory  = 536862720 (511 MB)
avail memory = 511438848 (487 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   PE1300  >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  1
  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  0


without ACPI
====================================
FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Oct 30 18:43:13 CET 2008
     aturetta@proxy:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROXY
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (498.47-MHz 686-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x673  Stepping = 3
 
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory  = 536862720 (511 MB)
avail memory = 511397888 (487 MB)
MPTable: <DELL     POWEREDGE 8E>
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  1
  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  0



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