[PATCH] ACPI CMOS region support - submission?

Anthony Jenkins Anthony.B.Jenkins at att.net
Mon Aug 4 13:00:59 UTC 2014


On 08/02/2014 18:10, Anthony Jenkins wrote:
> Okay how do I get this bad boy into -CURRENT?  Do I need a sponsor to do the commit?  Get my own FreeBSD developer status?

I should probably open a bug first...commits should reference bugs.

Anthony

> I made a few minor changes since the last incarnation:
>
>  - Defined the CMOS address/data register addresses as macros
>  - Defined the (apparent) I/O delay as a macro
>
> I also verified the ACPI CMOS region code only accesses up to register 63 (0x3F - in previous emails I mistakenly said 0x7F).
>
> If/when this gets in, I'd like to add sysctl controls to e.g. allow ACPI access to the date/time registers (I currently return failure when attempting to write them via ACPI).  I don't see anything in the spec (after re-reading it) that disallows ACPI from touching those.
>
> Thanks,
> Anthony Jenkins



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