ACPI problems with this morning's -CURRENT [SOLVED]

[Nate Lawson]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Damian Gerow wrote:
> Thus spake Nate Lawson (nate at root.org) [16/09/03 15:00]:
> > I'm almost certain your problem is defining MAXMEM to 512 MB.  Remove that
> > from your kernel config and try again.  MAXMEM causes all kinds of
> > problems.  If this doesn't solve it, start with the stock GENERIC and add
> > back in your custom kernel options until it fails.  The last option you
> > add is the faulty one.
>
> I was wondering the same thing myself last night actually...
>
> I just pulled that line, and it now works.  Which is weird -- I have two
> other 5.1 machines that I have specified MAXMEM in, without any troubles.
> It's also strange that this would only be brought out with ACPI...?
>
> Anyhow, it's working for me now.  If anyone feels like further debugging,
> I'm all game.

It probably has something to do with the virtual/physical gymnastics ACPI
has to do to map its tables into memory.

I have no time to track this down but the output of acpidump -t may help
someone else who might be interested.  You're looking for the pointers
that are stored in RSD PTR.

-Nate