ACPI problem - broken debug output (WAS: how to load DSDT)

[Doug White]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Michail Vidiassov wrote:

> Dear Dough,

like bread dough? :)

> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Doug White wrote:
>
> > > But it seems acpi_dsdt_load command does not work in STABLE.
> >
> > Note that this is a loader.conf option, not a binary.
> >
> > acpi_dsdt_load="/acpi.dsdt"
> >
> Thank you,
> acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
> acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/dsdt.aml"
> acpi_dsdt_type="acpi_dsdt"
> in loader.conf solved the problem.

Yes, that looks right.

> But after I have defined ACPI_DEBUG_OUTPUT in
> /sys/contrib/dev/acpica/acconfig.h
> I have got broken debug output like
>
> Table [DSDT] - %hd Objects with %hd Devices %hd Methods %hd Regions
> %hd Devices found containing: %hd _STA, %hd _INI methods
> Initialized %hd/%hd Regions %hd/%hd Fields %hd/%hd Buffers %hd/%hd
> Packages (%hd nodes)

Typically, acpi debugging is enabled using a couple of loader tunables, as
described on acpi(4).  You just need to compile with ACPI_DEBUG to get the
output functionality. I think ACPI_DEBUG_OUTPUT is some internal option
that you shouldn't be messing with directly.

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