acpi/ohci/rsdt wtf?

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 15 September 2005 03:41 pm, Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
> I'm curious what the
>
> acpi_perf0: invalid _PSS package
>
> messages are all about and why there are so many? I'm also curious about
> the EHCI stuff. My bios has some settings which state:
>
> "stop ehci in ohci handler handover"
>
> the comments for the setting stats:
>
> "stops the ehci host controller during ohci handvoer call. the is needed
> for installing Oses that does not support ehci host controllers"

Leave it off.  FreeBSD 6 includes the ehci(4) driver by default as you can see 
in your dmesg.

> and I'm not sure what it means and I don't know if FreeBSD-6beta4 supports
> it.
>
> Also, there's another setting about "acpi apic support" where the hint
> states:
>
> "include acpi apic table pointer to rsdt pointer list"
>
> Wha?

Leave that on.  It looks like it already is.  Having this on is what let's us 
find the ACPI APIC Table as mentioned here:

> ACPI APIC Table: <A M I  OEMAPIC >
> ioapic0 <Version 1.4> irqs 0-23 on motherboard

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