Re: ACPI0007 ? Anyone know what it is?

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Sun, 6 Nov 2022 09:54:35 -0400 (AST)
    From:        Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <ce3637dd-acc1-5e0-a369-4871d77e765c%invisible.ca@localhost>

  | It's not used to discover processors by OSes because typically that is 
  | done well before the AML interpreter is brought online.'

Yes, the CPUs are all discovered earlier.

  | The error message you are seeing comes from an (ill conceived IMHO) option 
  | ACPI_ACTIVATE_DEV which is not enabled by default in any kernels we ship.

Ah, OK, thanks.   I had that (and everything else similar I could find)
enabled, as I have an add-on PCIe SATA controller, that the firmware likes
to ignore often, and everything simply acts as if it doesn't exist.

So I turned on every option I could imagine might allow NetBSD to access
the thing (none of that ever worked, the issues I had using PCI_CONFIG_DUMP
were also chasing the same issue).   When the firmware feels like
activating the controller, it all works great with NetBSD.  When it
doesn't, NetBSD sees an empty PCI bus instead, and none of the options
helped.   But (aside from PCI_CONFIG_DUMP which takes ages) none of them
seemed to do any harm either, so I hadn't bothered turning any off again.

I have just disabled that option in my kernel config file, so the next
kernel I build won't do that.   Thanks.

kre