Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z
Anthony Jenkins <[email protected]>
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>________________________________ >From: Lars Engels <[email protected]> >To: Anthony Jenkins <[email protected]> >Cc: Adrian Chadd <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Matthias Apitz <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 9:24 AM >Subject: Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z > >On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 05:42:04AM -0700, Anthony Jenkins wrote: >> >________________________________ >> >From: Adrian Chadd <[email protected]> >> >To: Lars Engels <[email protected]> >> >Cc: [email protected]; Matthias Apitz <[email protected]>; [email protected] >> >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 9:38 AM >> >Subject: Re: FreeBSD release Acer Aspire 5735Z >> > >> >On 29 October 2011 21:08, Lars Engels <[email protected]> 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. > >I loaded apci_wmi on an Acer notebook and /dev/wmistat was created. >Using cat(1) I was presented a table of three GUIDs. Google told me that >one of them represented the Wireless / Bluetooth state. I had to modify the driver to create /dev/wmistat%d instances for the two interfaces it detected on my laptop. cat(1)'ing each shows a single GUID entry. My laptop model is not listed in the Linux acer_acpi supported hardware, but this laptop is the first one that has had almost *everything* supported by FreeBSD - ACPI suspend/resume, wireless Atheros NIC (thanks Adrian!), SATA HDD, etc. So I apparently don't even need acpi_wmi(4)... >But what to do then? acpi_wmi's manpage only says that it can only read >the values via wmistat, but not how to alter them. Maybe that functionality is what needs to be ported to FreeBSD :-) I'll go that route. Anthony >> >> ...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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"