Re: Workaround for invalid firmware-date values

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

On 2011-01-17, at 4:30 PM, Julio Merino wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> When booting NetBSD on a MacBook Pro 2,2, I get the following message:
> 
>    ACPI: BIOS is too old (19070813). Set acpi_force_load to use.
> 
> This means (obviously) that ACPI does not work at all and, in turn, that
> some devices such as the firewire controller do not work (failure to
> assign interrupts).
> 
> I forced the load of the ACPI code and things just work.
> 
> How does the workaround below look?

Looks good to me.

Cheers,
Jared