FreeBSD base system does not provide an ACPI handler for the PC/AT RTC/CMOS
device with PnP ID PNP0B00; on some HP laptops, the absence of this handler
causes suspend/resume and poweroff(8) to hang or fail [1], [2]. On these
laptops EC _REG method queries the RTC date/time registers via ACPI
before suspending/powering off. The handler should be registered before
acpi_ec driver is loaded.
This change adds handler to access CMOS RTC operation region described in
section 9.15 of ACPI-6.2 specification [3]. It is installed only for ACPI
version of atrtc(4) so it should not affect old ACPI-less i386 systems.
It is possible to disable the handler with loader tunable:
debug.acpi.disabled=atrtc
Informational debugging printf can be enabled by setting hw.acpi.verbose=1
in loader.conf
[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/HP_Envy_6Z-1100
[2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/HP_Notebook_15-af104ur
[3] https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_2.pdf
PR: 207419, 213039
Submitted by: Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com>
Reviewed by: ian
Discussed on: acpi@, 2013-2015, several threads
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19314
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