Call for testers: New acpi_ibm driver

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 7 15:12:57 GMT 2005


On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 03:06:18PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 06:57:09PM +0200, Markus Brueffer wrote:
> > I'm looking for testers for a mostly rewritten and enhanced version of the 
> > acpi_ibm (ACPI Thinkpad Extras) driver.
> > 
> > You can find it along with a first draft of the new manpage at:
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~markus/ibm/
> > 
> > If you are running -CURRENT, simply replace the former driver with the new 
> > one in sys/dev/acpi_support and rebuild it. (sorry, no patch for 5.x for 
> > now).
> > 
> > Please mail me on failure and success and include the output of 
> > # sysctl hw.acpi.ibm
> > 
> I own the IBM ThinkPad 600X notebook.  The acpi(4) and acpi_video(4)
> both work, but this beast doesn't even probe.
> 
> Does anyone have an explanation why acpi_ibm doesn't get probed on
> this notebook?  My devinfo has the IBM0068 device listed (see below),
> but for some reason this device doesn't get passed to the acpi_ibm's
> probe method.
> 
> : nexus0
> :   legacy0
> :   npx0
> :   acpi0
> :     cpu0 pnpinfo _HID=none _UID=0 at handle=\_PR_.CPU0
> :       acpi_throttle0
> :       cpufreq0
> :     pci_link0 pnpinfo _HID=PNP0C0F _UID=1 at handle=\_SB_.LNKA
> :     pci_link1 pnpinfo _HID=PNP0C0F _UID=2 at handle=\_SB_.LNKB
> :     pci_link2 pnpinfo _HID=PNP0C0F _UID=3 at handle=\_SB_.LNKC
> :     pci_link3 pnpinfo _HID=PNP0C0F _UID=4 at handle=\_SB_.LNKD
> :     acpi_lid0 pnpinfo _HID=PNP0C0D _UID=0 at handle=\_SB_.LID0
> :     acpi_button0 pnpinfo _HID=PNP0C0E _UID=0 at handle=\_SB_.SLPB
> :     unknown pnpinfo _HID=IBM0068 _UID=0 at handle=\_SB_.HKEY
>                            ^^^^^^^
> :     acpi_sysresource0 pnpinfo _HID=PNP0C01 _UID=0 at handle=\_SB_.MBRM
> :     pcib0 pnpinfo _HID=PNP0A03 _UID=0 at handle=\_SB_.PCI0
> 
OK, I fixed the AML and it now probes and attaches.  Most of
the acpi_ibm(4) features seem to work.  Thanks to Nate for
aid in debugging.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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