ACPI thermal polling on Abit AW8

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 07:29:50AM +0100, Erik Mossberg wrote:
> I'm getting spammed with an ACPI error message, which seems to be related to
> thermal polling, this problem both occurs in 6.2-RC1 (generic) and
> 7.0-CURRENT (15 dec). Seems it has been reported some time ago;
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2006-August/019794.html
> 
> My "workaround" so far to this is that i've set
> hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rateto some really high value (46800), to
> avoid the spam-age. Anyone know any
> better way around it? (apart from disabling ACPI)

Yes.  Put
hint.acpi.disabled="thermal"
in your /boot/loader.conf

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