Call for testers: New acpi_ibm driver

[Nate Lawson]

Martin Cracauer wrote:
> All right, updated my thinkpad to 6.0-current.  Frozen is as good as
> -stable, no? :-)
> 
> Having trouble with the acpi_ibm module, it seems my R40 is not
> recognized as a thinkpad.
> 
> 6.0-current as of yesterday, revision 1.6 of acpi_ibm (June 10).
> 
> $ kldload acpi_ibm
> # prints to console that sio4 irq is not in bitmaps
> 
> $ sysctl -a | grep -i ibm
> dev.acpi.0.%desc: IBM TP-1P
> dev.psmcpnp.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=IBM0057 _UID=0

I think the current driver only recognizes IBM0068.  Adding your HID 
string to the list at the top of acpi_ibm.c would get things rolling. 
Whether it works correctly on your model would be another question.

> http://www.cons.org/tmp/acpidump-t-d_thinkpad-r40
>  
> Any ideas how to make it detect?
> 
> I do get other acpi stuff like the termal zone and the video/display
> just fine.
> 
> Martin


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Nate