ACPICA 20100121 regression

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Monday 01 February 2010 02:25 pm, Rui Paulo wrote:
> 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.

Because "Windows 2009" was added in 20090903. :-)

Jung-uk Kim