Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:32:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:32:43 -0500 Received: from fmr01.intel.com ([192.55.52.18]:2043 "EHLO hermes.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:32:41 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Moore, Robert" To: "'Andrew McGregor'" , Pavel Machek , Alan Cox Cc: "Grover, Andrew" , "'Ducrot Bruno'" , Ducrot Bruno , Patrick Mochel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ACPI mailing list Subject: RE: [ACPI] Dell i8k was: Re: [2.5.50, ACPI] link error Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:40:05 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2899 Lines: 84 The problem is related to this message: ACPI-0189: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML I have a patch for the oops caused by this, but there may be an additional underlying problem where the AML is causing a zero length buffer to be created. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Andrew McGregor [mailto:andrew@indranet.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 7:45 PM To: Pavel Machek; Alan Cox Cc: Grover, Andrew; 'Ducrot Bruno'; Ducrot Bruno; Patrick Mochel; Linux Kernel Mailing List; ACPI mailing list Subject: Re: [ACPI] Dell i8k was: Re: [2.5.50, ACPI] link error Hmm, when I boot 2.5.51 w/ACPI on it with a battery installed, it panics. By booting without and then inserting the battery, I got the attached oops. See also the messages in the dmesg output. Andrew --On Wednesday, December 11, 2002 09:50:48 +1300 Andrew McGregor wrote: > I strongly suspect that s4bios will work on this machine, but swsusp > won't. Why? It's a Dell Inspiron 8000 with an NVidia Geforce2go, and > until NVidia put pm support in their driver, it's game over for Linux. > Except that the BIOS knows how to suspend it, so some kernel/driver > combinations work with APM. I suspect any Geforce2go Dell is the same. > > Andrew > > --On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 21:40:31 +0100 Pavel Machek > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >>> > I concur with your pros and cons. This makes me think that if S4BIOS >>> > support ever gets added, it should get added to 2.4 only. >> >> And S4BIOS will never get added to 2.4 since it needs driver model >> :-(. >> >>> That assumes no box exists where S4bios works an S4 doesnt (eg due to >>> bad tables or "knowing" what other-os does) >> >> We have full control over S4 (== swsusp), so we can fix that in most >> cases. >> >> S4BIOS is still little friendlier to the user -- no need to set up >> swap partition and command line parameter, can't go wrong if you boot >> without resume=, etc. >> Pavel >> >> -- >> Casualities in World Trade Center: ~3k dead inside the building, >> cryptography in U.S.A. and free speech in Czech Republic. >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" >> in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >> >> > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/