Re: [ACPI-sppt] RAMB values

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:49:16PM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> > Something like that:
> > 
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <sys/io.h>
> 
> news on RAMB :-)
> 
> When testing with this tool, reading RAMB evaluates to 0x0f750064 (on
> my system, maybe some others could test their values), while the value
> of RAMB in the ACPI driver is 0x64646464. So I tried hardcoding the
> value of RAMB in the DSDT to 0x0f750064, and now ACPI hangs on boot
> like after running Windows.
> 
> As an immediate consequence, you can avoid the hang-on-reboot by
> hardcoding RAMB to 0x64646464 in the DSDT (haven't tested this).
> 

Another possibility is that acpi is buggy, and do not handle correctly
a read of a dword from an indexed field.

-- 
Ducrot Bruno

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--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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