alpm(4) I/O range is claimed by ACPI

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:44:20AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> How can I load the alpm(4) module for SMBus support on my ASUS Vintage  
> AH-1 system?
>
> It appears the I/O range it uses is claimed by the acpi(4) driver. Can I  
> override the mapping in some way i.e. tell ACPI not to claim the range?  
> I don't see anything obvious about this in the acpi(4) man page.

Might mention this to jhb@ to see if it's related to the SMBus changes
made 1.5 years ago:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/alpm.c

I found this thread, which despite being USB-centric, shows someone
trying to load alpm(4) on RELENG_6 and getting a map allocation error
back in 2003.  Not sure if this is of any help:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-April/000190.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-April/000192.html

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