FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z

[Anthony Jenkins]

>________________________________
>From: Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
>To: Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net>
>Cc: irek-kaenly at yandex.ru; Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>; freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
>Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 9:38 AM
>Subject: Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z
>
>On 29 October 2011 21:08, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
>
>> And cross your fingers that the button to enable / disable wireless
>> works out of the box. Unfortunately there's no port of Linux' acer_acpi
>> [1] to FreeBSD.
>>
>> [1] http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/
>
>Please please please, can someone port this?

Looks like this was already ported to acpi_wmi(4) some time ago (or at least 
formed the basis for acpi_wmi(4)), but I can't load it on my Acer Aspire 5552 without panicking the kernel - seems it tries to construct two 
cdevs with the same name.  Looking into a patch now, just to see what it does.

...and I had just downloaded the Linux kernel sources to try my hand at a port (acer_acpi lives in the Linux kernel now). What is the current procedure (if any) for porting GPL'd stuff to BSD?


Anthony



>Adrian