BIOS Regression on HP/Compaq [d]v6000 series notebooks

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2008-May-19 11:09:54 +0800, Ariff Abdullah <ariff at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>I've been thinking on taking a different stab by hijacking cpu_idle*()
>functions instead. Please disregard all previous quirks and get either
>of these:
>
>http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/misc/k8c1e/current_k8c1e_idle_hlt.diff
>
>http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/misc/k8c1e/releng6-7_k8c1e_idle_hlt.diff

That sounds like an eminently sensible approach.  I've tried the
releng6 version of that patch (which isn't at the above URL but
looking in the k8c1e directory made it obvious) and the laptop now
works correctly when you apply or remove power.  There is an issue
with booting on battery and I need to do some more investigating to
determine whether this is a side-effect of the patch (which I don't
believe) or something else.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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