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Date:      Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:46:50 -0800
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: acpi_cpu: _PDC vs _OSC
Message-ID:  <4B69E0BA.4080104@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B698DD8.4010404@icyb.net.ua>
References:  <4B698DD8.4010404@icyb.net.ua>

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Andriy Gapon wrote:
> What do you think about changing logic of evaluating _PDC and _OSC for Processor
> object in acpi_cpu_attach?
> It seems that later versions of ACPI standard deprecate _PDC in favor of _OSC.
> Although, in practice they seem to be present or not present together, sometimes
> _PDC being only a wrappper around _OSC.  There are still, of course, systems with
> only _PDC present.  I assume that there are systems with only _OSC too.
> 
> I would like to change the order, so that _OSC evaluation is attempted first and
> only if it fails then proceed with _PDC.
> 

This is fine with me. When I first implemented this stuff, _PDC was
barely public and I had to guess at some of the bits.

-- 
Nate




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