Re: Solved (Re: FYI: acpi | boot hangs when Laptop not connected to AC | NEC Versa FM320)

[YONETANI Tomokazu <qhwt+dragonfly-bugs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> :Works, for met too!
> :I noticed the following behaviors:
> :The message "Performance set to economy" is no longer visible at boot 
> :(which IMHO is favorable).

Did you remove 'debug.acpi.disabled' line from /boot/loader.conf?

> :The laptop is off line noticeable slower then on line but the 
> :throttle_state's are the same (hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_max: 8, 
> :hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_state: 8) plugging the power cord in doesn't make 
> :the laptop faster, when once booted off line.
> :I seem to fail to discover which sysctl to tweak to get it at full speed.
> :
> :Thanks you (and all the other contributers offcourse) for the excellent 
> :work, I really appreciate it!
> :
> :-- 
> :mph
>  
>     The same thing happens to me, except it does tell me that the system
>     power profile has change to 'economy' on boot (maybe it tells you too
>     but you aren't looking in the dmesg in the right place).  And, indeed,
>     when I power up with the AC unplugged the machine runs at half speed,
>     but then does not speed up again when I plug the AC in (even though it
>     tells me it has changed to 'performance' mode).

Not even with
sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_state=1
or
sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_state=`sysctl -n hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_max`
?

>     Similarly if I power up with AC plugged in (the machine goes full speed),
>     but then if I unplug the AC after the system has come up it doesn't slow
>     down at all even though it tells me that it has switched to 'economy'
>     mode.

This is because we lack devd framework that acpica5 relies on. I think you
didn't see it throttle up/down when you plugged/unplugged the AC to your
machine just before your fix. The acpi_cpu.c from FreeBSD-4.x installed an
eventhandler power_profile_change so that a call to power_profile_set_state()
called acpi_cpu_power_profile(). In FreeBSD-5.x, throttling on transition of
power profile is handled via devd, so they don't have to install the
eventhandler anymore. And this was why `economy' and 'performance' knobs
were removed from hw.acpi.cpu. Bringing the eventhandler hook from 4.x code
is probably the right fix at the moment, but it's less flexible than devd.