Re: port-amd64/42895 (Weird ACPI messages every 30 seconds on the console)

[Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>]

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From: Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: port-amd64-maintainer%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, jruoho%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
rhialto%falu.nl@localhost
Subject: Re: port-amd64/42895 (Weird ACPI messages every 30 seconds on the
 console)
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 22:24:52 +0200

 On Wed 20 Apr 2011 at 05:56:38 +0000, jruoho%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 > Synopsis: Weird ACPI messages every 30 seconds on the console
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: jruoho%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > State-Changed-When: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:56:37 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > 
 > I applied some fixes for these issues in 5.99.X -current. Can you see
 > whether these made any difference? (Unfortunately, without the actual
 > hardware, issues like this are extremely difficult to debug, leaving
 > just some vague ideas on what might be wrong.)
 
 I have to admit I just looked at the issue again a few days ago.
 
 I used a recent -current (maybe about a week old now) and I re-adapted
 my config file from GENERIC. This added 
 
 acpicpu*        at cpu?         # ACPI CPU (including frequency scaling)
 
 and this silences the messages!
 
 (If this is because everything works now, or the failing attempt is not
 tried any more, I don't know yet).
 
 However, twice now the kernel with this option has frozen completely on
 me, within minutes after boot and login.
 
 I also noticed that estd (for dynamic frequency scaling) didn't like to
 work any more. It claimed not to recognize the cpu. I had to re-add
 
 options         ENHANCED_SPEEDSTEP
 
 even though there also is
 
 est0            at cpu0         # Intel Enhanced SpeedStep (non-ACPI)
 
 This is probably unrelated, though.
 
 -Olaf.
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