[acpi-jp 2267] Re: HEADSUP: acpi patches in the tree

[Nate Lawson]

On Thu, 29 May 2003, Takayoshi Kochi wrote:
> I'm still studying the reason why the TABLE_ID_DSDT is removed
> in recent ACPI CA, but at least you should remove all TABLE_ID_DSDT's,
> I think.
>
> Also, ACPI_FIRST_METHOD_ID should be larger than 0,
> otherwise 0 may be allocated to running method and make a conflict.
>
> I've made a diff against NetBSD-current and just booted the kernel,
> but haven't tested much (and still trying to make out what the
> changes are intended).
>
> Attached is the patch and should apply to the FreeBSD tree with
> some appropriate option.

Thank you for the patch.  Since we are only days away from a release, I
would like to avoid using the new dynamic ID allocation code and instead
stick to hard-coding the defaults.  This is the safer way for 5.1R.  We
will do a new import and more fixes after the release.

-Nate