Using ACPI causes panics and crashes on Tyan 1832 tiger 100

[Nate Lawson]

Reko Turja wrote:
> From: "Nate Lawson" <nate at root.org>
> To: "Charlie Root" <root at liukuma.net>
> Cc: <freebsd-acpi at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 2:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Using ACPI causes panics and crashes on Tyan 1832 tiger 100
> 
>>> Is there any hope on getting this system running on ACPI, or is the BIOS
>>> hosed for good? If I can supply any extra assistance or information I'm
>>> at your service and access to the box can be provided if needed.
>>
>> Upgrade your BIOS to the last known version.  If it still has problems,
>> it's likely your system does not support acpi.  Just set
>> hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" in /boot/loader.conf and be done with it.
> 
> BIOS is the latest (from 2001...), the machine in question ran under
> ACPI multiprocessor in Windows quite happily though, but I guess FreeBSD
> ACPI is a no-go then.

Windows has a number of workarounds for buggy systems and if you mean
W2K, avoids implementing certain features on such systems.  I can either
spend time trying to hack around old buggy systems or new ones.  I think
most users prefer the latter.

-- 
Nate