Re: Could you please fix this ?

From: Alexander Motin <mav_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:29:02 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:57:50 +0000, Leonardo Santagostini <lsantagostini_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was facing one big problem, i have a notebook, which is an Acer
>> Aspire 5920.
>
> Jung-uk Kim has done a lot of ACPI-related work, so he will probably
> know if the change is ok to commit to stable/8.  I've added him to the
> thread, so he can let us know what he thinks of the change.  Can you
> please post a diff that also shows _where_ the changes have to be
> installed in our current version of src/sys/dev/acpica/acpi_pcib_pci.c
> for 8.0-RELEASE?

Giorgos, this patch is not a fix, but a dirty workaround. The real
problem is that out PCI code unable to allocate resources in case if
BIOS doesn't do it. On this system PCIe bridges loose resources for some
reason when ACPI started. Windows and Linux are able to restore them,
but we are not at this moment.

-- 
Alexander Motin
Received on Thu Dec 03 2009 - 08:29:07 UTC

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