[Call for Tests] PAT issue on Apple hardware

[Patrick Lamaiziere]

Le Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:36:42 -0500,
Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org> a écrit :

> Often times I hear complaints like "my Mac hangs after upgrading to 
> 8.1" or "snapshot CD hangs on my brand new Mac".  I know some of 
> these complaints started happening when we switched to new PAT 
> layout.  It is so puzzling because it never happened on non-Apple 
> hardware, AFAIK.  I really like to fix this problem but I cannot 
> afford a Mac. :-P

Thanks.

> If you are one of those lucky people, please test the attached patch 
> and report your hardware model and any improvement or regression.

Shall we test if the model is not listed in the patch and already works
fine? (I'm using a MacBookPro3,1 on FreeBSD 8.1)

if (strncmp(sysenv, "MacBook5,1", 10)
strncmp(sysenv, "MacBookPro5,5",
strncmp(sysenv, "Macmini3,1", 10)
strncmp(sysenv, "iMac9,1", 7) == 0)

Regards.