ACPI problems on HP Compaq nx6325

[Nate Lawson]

Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> As Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>> Have a look at PR i386/104678, and the patches referenced there.
>>> Using these patches, my nx6325 works reasonably well.  ...
> 
>> I looked at this and the solution should be "don't use anything
>> other than C1".
> 
> Nothing else is supported on the nx6325 anyway, only C1.  So that's
> certainly not the problem here.

If nothing other than C1 is supported, I am almost certain the patch 
doesn't affect anything.  So what problem were you seeing and how is it 
changed?

>> Also, *which* patch are you using from the PR?  THere are a few
>> different ones.
> 
> The one with the "idle_cpu", it introduces the hw.apic.idle_cpu
> tunable.

That patch configures mixed mode so that C2 and above are supported 
while using the LAPIC timer.  Again, I fail to see how this applies to you.

-- 
Nate