Acer Aspire 5672 laptop and FreeBSD 7.1-stable

Alexander Motin mav at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 9 15:43:52 PST 2009


Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:49:33 +0200
> Alexander Motin <mav at mavhome.dp.ua> wrote:
> 
>> I have alike problem with my Acre TravelMate. On ACPI enable,
>> PCI-Express bridges losing their resources allocation, making devices
>> beyond them inaccessible. Linux able to reallocate that resources,
>> while FreeBSD does not.
> 
> Interesting. Do you have links to more info?

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4905E740.9060302

> If Linux can do it, why can't we implement the same thing in FreeBSD?

Time?

>> I am personally now using patch found on some
>> list which does it in a dirty hack fashion especially for my system.
> 
> Also interesting. Do you have a link to this patch?

http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/tm6292_pcie.patch

-- 
Alexander Motin


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