acpi problems with IBM/Lenovo/ThinkCentre

[Nate Lawson]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 March 2006 09:11, Danny Braniss wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 14 March 2006 02:34 am, Danny Braniss wrote:
>>>>     ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed
>>>> [\\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.SIO_.COMA._ STA] (Node 0xffffff0000b8fc40),
>>>> AE_AML_ALIGNMENT
>>>>     ACPI-0239: *** Error: Method execution failed
>>>> [\\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.SIO_.COMA._ STA] (Node 0xffffff0000b8fc40),
>>>> AE_AML_ALIGNMENT
>>>> ...
>>> Fixing these requires a MFC of changes to ACPI-CA to not require strict
>>> alignment for amd64.  The ACPI-CA in 6.x requires strict alignment for
>>> all 64-bit archs because ia64 requires it, but that has since been fixed
>>> in current, just not MFC'd apparently.
>> assuming that there will be more amd64 than ia64, can the 
>> ACPI_MISALIGNED_TRANSFERS
>> be defined by default, and only undefed for ia64?
> 
> As I mentioned, it's already fixed in current and in the vendor ACPI-CA
> sources.  We just need to backport that change to RELENG_6.  Hmm, Intel
> actually changed the whole flag around (changed it to a different one
> with an inverted sense).  Probably best to just sync up ACPI-CA in
> RELENG_6 with ACPI-CA in head.  Nate, what do you think?

Unfortunately, the ACPI-CA in -current (and the latest from the vendor) 
have a small memory leak so we can't MFC until that is found and fixed.

-- 
Nate