Acer Aspire 5672 laptop and FreeBSD 8.0-stable

[Alexander Motin]

Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:38:36 +0200
> Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> Fixing this require significant improvement of the PCI code, which
>> wasn't done yet. At this moment I am using machine-specific local hack
>> to set proper resources there (same as in non-ACPI mode) by hands:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/tm6292_pcie.patch
> 
> I tested this patch, and it makes this laptop work better. Thanks!
> bge0 still doesn't attach for some reason, but wpi0 does, and it is usable now.
> 
> dmesg output on the info page:
> http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd

My patch was made exclusively for my TM6292. It may not fit your A5672.
You should boot in non-ACPI mode, copy resources of PCI bridges and
update patch using them. If you do it right, reported bridges resources
in ACPI and non-ACPI modes should be the same.

-- 
Alexander Motin