HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:48 am, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:09:27PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> > >It's definetely a regression from 4.11-STABLE that runs fine on
> > > this system with ACPI fully enabled
>
> Hmm, I was wrong about 4.11 using ACPI - it does not use it here
> really, it uses "good old" APM.
>
> > It would be interesting to know how 4.x probes the hardware vs.
> > how it apperas in the 6.x dmesg.
>
> 4.11-STABLE:
>
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>
> 6.2-PRERELEASE:
>
> fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2
> on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST]
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0

You have bad ACPI DSDT.  Try newer BIOS if there's any.

Jung-uk Kim