Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] solaris x86 in qemu? [bisected]

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 06/16/13 17:30, Kevin O'Connor wrote:

> Unfortunately not.  There was nothing special about the DSDT changes
> in that commit.  Likely the AML interpretter in Solaris is quirky and
> one of the clauses in that commit (or some arrangement of clauses) is
> confusing Solaris.  This is one of the unfortunate parts of ACPI -
> despite the lengthy specification each implementation of ACPI is
> different and it's painful to come up with AML code that runs on
> multiple platforms.
> 
> You could try disabling acpi entirely.
> 
> You could also try iterating through the parts of that commit and
> commenting out various DSDT entries until you find which one is
> aggravating Solaris.

Also, "Solaris ACPICA" is googleable; two examples:

https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/configuring_solaris_acpi_at_boot
https://blogs.oracle.com/danasblog/entry/solaris_acpi_ca_debug_output

Laszlo