[acpi-jp 2704] Re: Odd ACPI behavior

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 13:33:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Nate Lawson <nate at root.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:04:25 -0400 (EDT)
> > > From: John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>
> > >
> > > On 29-Sep-2003 Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > > I recently noticed that, when I boot with ACPI on my IBM T30, I get
> > > > errors trying to probe the BIOS disabled sio1. This does not happen
> > > > under apm and happens twice(?) when booting with ACPI and happens even
> > > > though I have the line 'hint.sio.1.disabled="1"' in /boot/device.hints.
> > > >>From my dmesg:
> > > > sio0: type 16550A
> > > > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> > > > sio1: port may not be enabled
> > > > acpi_cmbat0: <Control method Battery> on acpi0
> > > > acpi_cmbat1: <Control method Battery> on acpi0
> > > > acpi_acad0: <AC adapter> on acpi0
> > > > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> > > > sio1: port may not be enabled
> > >
> > > Do you kldload a module at some point during your boot?  If so, that
> > > would explain the double probe.
> >
> > Yes, it would, but I am not loading any kernel modules except the
> > slightly automatic loads of ACPI, itself and a few others which should
> > not cause a probe: ntfs, linux, linprocfs, and daemon_saver.
> 
> ACPI attaches the bus twice.  See sys/dev/acpica/acpi.c:
> 
>     /*
>      * Scan all of the child devices we have created and let them probe/attach.
>      */
>     ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_OBJECTS, "first bus_generic_attach\n"));
>     bus_generic_attach(bus);
> 
>     /*
>      * Some of these children may have attached others as part of their attach
>      * process (eg. the root PCI bus driver), so rescan.
>      */
>     ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_OBJECTS, "second bus_generic_attach\n"));
>     bus_generic_attach(bus);

Thanks. That explains why I get the message twice, but why do I get it
at all when the device is disabled in the device.hints file?
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634