ACPICA 20100121 regression

[Rui Paulo]

On 1 Feb 2010, at 19:21, Jung-uk Kim wrote:

> On Saturday 30 January 2010 10:49 am, Rui Paulo wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Latest ACPICA can't find my ASUS010 HID. It worked fine with
>> FreeBSD 8, which has ACPICA 20090521.
>> 
>> The ASL is located at:
>> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/asus-1005ha.asl.gz
>> 
>> What I'm seeing is ACPI_ID_PROBE() returning always NULL for
>> "ASUS010" and "ATK0100" devids.
> 
> It seems the ASL disables ASUS010 when the OS is "Windows 2009" (aka 
> Windows 7).  FYI, current ACPI-CA just returns okay for any Microsoft 
> OSes when _OSI method is used in ASL.  Thus, it thinks you are 
> running Windows 7.  You can comment out or remove line 3626-3629 and 
> override DSDT to re-enable the device, I think.

You're right, but I'm left wondering why it worked with a previous ACPICA.

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Rui Paulo