Re: [ACPI-sppt] RAMB values

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:28:53AM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Yes, that appears to be the case. I reported the bug on -devel. By
> hardcoding RAMB to 0x0F75064, the thermal zone and fan control work
> fine without other modifications.
> 
> The only problem left is that the computer hangs during ACPI
> initialization, when executing \_SB.PCI0.VGA._INI. A temporary
> work-around is to comment out the body of that method.
> 

That method use io port 0xb2, which is a way
to execute an obscur smi handler.  Will be hard to
debug therefore.

btw, it is using PADL and CADL, which are fields of \RAMW
Since now \RAMW have been corrected...

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