Award Bios, ACPI, Mouse and PR 55473???
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 5 14:30:26 PST 2004
On 05-Jan-2004 Shizuka Kudo wrote:
> --- John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 23-Dec-2003 Brian Black wrote:
>> > hi,
>> > I have been trying to post to different lists looking for a
>> > solution. though i have found some advice i have not found the
>> > solution. i was recently informed that i should post this question to
>> > the -current list(i should of done this earlier). I have a "Soyo Dragon
>> > Light" mother board which has this award bios. I have verified that my
>> > bios has been flashed with the most up-to date version(Well whatever the
>> > motherboard manufacture says).
>> > Now am certainly not a kernel hacker but i do understand a little
>> > bit of C code. The PR goes on to talk about a "Fix", which involves
>> > editing the "/urs/sys/dev/acpica/acpi_pci_link.c". After making the
>> > changes i had no luck :-(. Now i have been told that some people with
>> > this bios are not affected. Well would'nt that mean the the bios are
>> > not the same? I have contacted "Soyo" on this matter. They state on
>> > their web site that freebsd is supported, but have not returned my
>> > e-mail.
>> > How would i be able to determine weather this problem can be fixed
>> > by FreeBsd or the manufacture of the mother board? Is This problem
>> > being looked at for 5.2R i have not been able to really sink into using
>> > the new 5.x series because of this problem(So what i like GUI's a
>> > little). ;-)
>>
>> Hmm, yes.
>>
>> Can you try the patch at
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/acpi_link_sta.patch
>
> I have tried your patch with no luck. I still need to revert to test on
> ACPI_ENABLE as described on 55473
This patch does test ENABLE. Do you have a working patch that you can show
me?
>> Index: acpi_pci_link.c
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sys/dev/acpica/acpi_pci_link.c,v
>> retrieving revision 1.11
>> diff -u -r1.11 acpi_pci_link.c
>> --- acpi_pci_link.c 18 Dec 2003 03:25:22 -0000 1.11
>> +++ acpi_pci_link.c 23 Dec 2003 16:29:35 -0000
>> @@ -489,7 +489,16 @@
>> return_ACPI_STATUS (error);
>> }
>>
>> - if (!(sta & (ACPI_STA_PRESENT | ACPI_STA_FUNCTIONAL))) {
>> + /*
>> + * We really should not use link devices that aren't enabled,
>> + * but if they are marked as either functional or enabled, we
>> + * assume they are ok.
>> + *
>> + * XXX: The PCI bridge code requires that both PRESENT and
>> + * ENABLE are set in a separate check.
>> + */
>> + if ((sta & ACPI_STA_PRESENT) == 0 ||
>> + (sta & (ACPI_STA_ENABLE | ACPI_STA_FUNCTIONAL)) == 0) {
>> ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_ERROR,
>> "PCI interrupt link is not functional - %s\n",
>> acpi_name(handle)));
>>
--
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