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Date:      Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:04:41 -0800
From:      Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
To:        Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Subject:   Re: ACPI thermal panics ThinkPad 600X 
Message-ID:  <200302182304.PAA28623@mina.soco.agilent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:59:51 PST." <3E52ACD7.BDC8716@mindspring.com> 

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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:

> A more useful reference, I think, is:
> 
> 	http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3597172
> 
> If you add similar code to FreeBSD to detect and patch the BIOS
> table, this fixes the problem in FreeBSD, as well (though adding
> the code is somewhat tricky: YMMV, knowledge of both FreeBSD and
> Linux required; sorry, I do not have a patch against -current).

     Yah, I think the correct/updated version is at:

	http://www.poupinou.org/acpi/ibm_ecdt.html

However, I think I'll pray and wait for an IBM BIOS fix.  I'm not yet
that desperate.  ;-(

     In the meantime, I'll muddle through with apm.

-- 
	Darryl Okahata
	darrylo@soco.agilent.com

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