ACPI "blacklist" question

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 19 15:12:17 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 17 September 2008 11:44 am, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2008 07:47:18 am Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have recently updated a machine to 7-stable.
> > ACPI doesn't seem to work correctly on this machine.
> > With earlier versions of FreeBSD (including the latest
> > RELENG_6), I got this line in dmesg:
> >
> >    ACPI disabled by blacklist.  Contact your BIOS vendor.
> >
> > And everything was fine.  The box runs perfectly well
> > with ACPI disabled.  (I can't get a BIOS update because
> > the mainboard is too old.)
> >
> > When I updated to RELENG_7 a few days ago, the above line
> > did _not_ appear anymore, and the machine didn't proceed
> > to boot, so I had to travel to the console.  :-(
> > After disabling ACPI manually via boot.conf hint, it is
> > up and running fine again.
> >
> > Now i'm wondering:   Has the ACPI blacklist been removed
> > intentionally, or is this a regression?  Certainly I did
> > not find any mentioning of it in UPDATING or anywhere
> > else.
>
> This is a regression.  Try this fix:
>
> Index: acpi_quirk.c
> ===================================================================
> --- acpi_quirk.c	(revision 183112)
> +++ acpi_quirk.c	(working copy)
> @@ -149,9 +149,9 @@
>      if (ACPI_FAILURE(AcpiGetTableHeader(ACPI_SIG_FADT, 0, &fadt)))
>  	bzero(&fadt, sizeof(fadt));
>      if (ACPI_FAILURE(AcpiGetTableHeader(ACPI_SIG_DSDT, 0, &dsdt)))
> -	bzero(&fadt, sizeof(dsdt));
> +	bzero(&dsdt, sizeof(dsdt));
>      if (ACPI_FAILURE(AcpiGetTableHeader(ACPI_SIG_XSDT, 0, &xsdt)))
> -	bzero(&fadt, sizeof(xsdt));
> +	bzero(&xsdt, sizeof(xsdt));
>
>      /* Then, override the quirks with any matched from table
> signatures. */ for (entry = acpi_quirks_table; entry->match;
> entry++) {

Doh, that's my copy-and-pasto.  Thanks for catching it!

Jung-uk Kim


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