ACPI error on Compaq nc6220, FreeBSD 7.0

[Nate Lawson]

Denis wrote:
> On 9/24/07, Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> wrote:
>> Roman Pavlik wrote:
>>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:57:20AM +0400, Denis wrote:
>>> I've seen similar issue with ACPI on my HP 6710b. Escape to debug and
>>> return doesn't help. Sometimes helps disconecting AC line. The workaround
>>> is comment out the following line in GENERIC:
>>>  #options     PREEMPTION              # Enable kernel thread preemption
>>>  #options     ADAPTIVE_GIANT          # Giant mutex is adaptive.
>>>
>>> Rebuild kernel, reinstall, reboot.
> 
> Thank you, Roman. I rebuild kernel and it helps. And disconecting AC
> line seems to help too (but tried only once)
> 
>> Jung-uk Kim's global lock patch may be the solution.  We're trying to
>> get this stuff committed but things are slow due to the freeze for 7.0.
>>  You can't have too many patches floating around.
> 
> Nate, if you mean this patch -
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/acpica/OsdSynch.diff - I tried it, but
> without luck.

Nope, I mean the one just committed to 7-current.  So just cvsup and try
again.

-- 
Nate