Contributed by phessler on from the zombie-eats-aml-for-breakfast dept.
(Update 2008-06-01: There is also a patch that fixes some PCI routing issues on additional machines but needs more testing. Test and report!
We would like to add that all machines with ACPI (laptops, servers, desktops, workstations, etc) need testing.A few minutes ago I re-enabled the new AML parser for ACPI. This parser fixes quite a few issues, including those pesky new HP boxes that were crapping out with the setbufint panic. Also ACPI interrupts in MP on amd64 now work as well (at least on my machines). Even though we think this helps a lot we want to make sure we do not have any regressions. So please check out a new tree and compile a new kernel or download a snapshot and test acpi as much as you can. What would help is to see if the dmesg changes. So take a dmesg with the old and the new kernel and run diff -uNp on it. If anything changes besides a little bit of memory usage please mail me the results with all usual suspects (acpidump, dmesg old, dmesg new). Do not wait on this, we need results now if this is to be included on the next OpenBSD version.
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By Anonymous Coward (81.169.167.206) on
I am currently building from src (current) but I would like to know more about what gets improved.
F.e. I face "can't allocate I/O space" related to the Cardbus-System on a x61s.
Furthermore there is a counting issue and I am unsure if it is a serious bug.
I plugged the card into the laptop, removed it and attached it again and removed it again.
com3 at pcmcia0 function 0: can't allocate i/o space
com4 at pcmcia0 function 0: can't allocate i/o space
As you can see "comX" gets incrased.
I tried it with a old Netgear WLAN PCMICA Card (wi0).
Any hints would be nice.
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By okan (160.39.158.193) on
> I am currently building from src (current) but I would like to know more about what gets improved.
>
> F.e. I face "can't allocate I/O space" related to the Cardbus-System on a x61s.
>
> Furthermore there is a counting issue and I am unsure if it is a serious bug.
>
> I plugged the card into the laptop, removed it and attached it again and removed it again.
>
> com3 at pcmcia0 function 0: can't allocate i/o space
> com4 at pcmcia0 function 0: can't allocate i/o space
>
> As you can see "comX" gets incrased.
> I tried it with a old Netgear WLAN PCMICA Card (wi0).
>
> Any hints would be nice.
try -current with the latest patch on tech@ (link above). my x61s handles pcmcia now.
By Anonymous Coward (213.41.185.88) on
> I am currently building from src (current) but I would like to know more about what gets improved.
You don't quite get it, I think.
It's supposed to be a better parser, that will work with more laptops
and situations. There's not a simple list of what it will improve.
What it needs is tests, positive and negative tests.
It means people have to get off their asses and try it out.
Even if acpi works fine for them already ! especially if it works fine, because this might break some stuff for some people.
The PC hardware, in general, is crap. Which is why acpi is progressing so slowly, because this is a minefield. Which is why it needs to be tested every step of the way, so that people see improvements all over the place, and not the sorry pattern `improvement for some, regression for others'.
By Anonymous Coward (2001:6f8:94d:4:202:b3ff:feb7:54e8) on
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