On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Pete Vickers <pete@systemnet.no> wrote:
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> Hi Matthieu,
>
> Just a quick note concerning the eeepc i386-laptop.html entry. I acquired
> one today, and installed OpenBSD via pxeboot using the builtin ethernet
> interface. Then I discovered it's not entire acpi that causes panics, it's
> only acpibat. If you boot -c (or config -e) then:
>        - disable apm
>        - enable acpi
>        - disable acpibat
>

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> mainbus0 at root
> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 03/03/08, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0010,
> SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0xf06e0 (37 entries)
> bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "0910" date 03/03/2008
> bios0: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 701

That's the key. You've BIOS version 910, while mine had version 703
when I did the tests.
the 910 ACPI bios seems to behave better indeed.

Thanks for the heads up.
--
Matthieu