In article <20071214180019.649cf054@cs.columbia.edu>,
Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:11:43 +0000
>Andrew Doran <ad@NetBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:44:19PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:56:33PM -0800, Brian Buhrow wrote:
>> > > options	ACPI_BELIEVE_BIOS
>> > 
>> > I am strongly opposing such an option.
>> 
>> Agreed. Perhaps the Dell BIOS is reporting nonsense but not being
>> able to work with that is a bug in NetBSD.
>> 
>NetBSD certainly has to be changed to cope.  The question is how.  What
>cleaner change -- preferably one that can be in GENERIC kernels -- will
>get Brian's hardware working?

How about adding another quirk for the particular ACPI implementation?

christos