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Subject: [acpi-jp 3164] Re: Buggy ACPI BIOS
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Panagiotis Astithas wrote:
> Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> > I think that FreeBSD include a workaround for the return bug, I'm not
> > sure at 100% though.
> >
> > If that is the case, you don't have to overwrite your DSDT anyway.
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the thorough reply! I loaded the modified asl per your diff
> and it seems to work (iasl didn't report any errors or warnings,
> either). The only difference I can tell is that kernel & modules get
> loaded at different addresses, but I don't know whether this is of any
> significance.

This does not have any significance.  Your machine should work fine with
the stock ASL but feel free to send your diff to your manufacturer in
hopes of improving compliance with the ACPI spec.

-Nate
