ACPI blacklist of Asus P2B-F

[Nate Lawson]

James E. Flemer wrote:
> I believe the quirk (blacklist) entry for the Asus P2B-F motherboard can 
> be removed for FreeBSD.  I have been running a server with that 
> motherboard with ACPI enabled from soon after ACPI support was added to 
> FreeBSD.  Since it's a server, I haven't extensively tried sleep or 
> suspend; S1 seems fine, haven't tried S4(non-BIOS), and it doesn't 
> support any other ('cept S5).  I think that the blacklist probably 
> originated from some Windows version and problems with shut down (system 
> would not power off).  FreeBSD can power this box off via 'shutdown -p' 
> and 'acpiconf -s 5'.  All I can find with Google about this board and 
> ACPI seems shutdown related.  It may be possible that older BIOS vers 
> (hopefully with different ACPI oem version #s) have legitimate problems, 
> but it seems to me that rev 0x58582e31 is just fine for FreeBSD.
> 
> Anyone else have this board who has tried ACPI?  Can we change the quirk 
> to '< 0x58582e31' rather than '<= 0x58582e31'?

Thanks for the data point and I'm open to doing this.  Is there a newer 
BIOS revision available?  If there isn't, please let me know, we'll set 
up a PR with the board info and dmesg, and then commit the change.

-- 
Nate