Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265435AbTIEVqi (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:46:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265100AbTIEVqY (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:46:24 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:14731 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265435AbTIEVpx (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:45:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3F590400.7050600@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 17:45:36 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard A Nelson CC: Patrick Mochel , Rob Landley , Pavel Machek , kernel list Subject: Re: Fix up power managment in 2.6 References: <200309050158.36447.rob@landley.net> <20030905180248.GB29353@gtf.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2026 Lines: 58 Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>Note that a lot of ThinkPads out in the field need a BIOS update >>before their ACPI is working. (I know this because IBM was quite >>helpful and proactive in addressing their Linux-related ACPI BIOS >>issues) > > > And even that isn't always enough :( > > I have a TP30, 2366-51U with the latest BIOS: > Version: 1IET67WW (2.06 ) > Release: 07/17/2003 > Processor Manufacturer: GenuineIntel > Processor Version: Pentium(R) 4 > BIOS32 Service Directory present. > Calling Interface Address: 0x000FD7E0 > ACPI 2.0 present. > OEM ID: IBM > RSD table at 0x0FF63195. > PNP 1.0 present. > Event Notification: Polling > Event Notification Flag Address: 0x000004B4 > Real Mode Code Address: F000:9D36 > Real Mode Data Address: 0040:0000 > Protected Mode Code Address: 0x000F9D54 > Protected Mode Data Address: 0x00000400 > PCI Interrupt Routing 1.0 present. > Table Size: 256 bytes > Router ID: 00:1f.0 > Exclusive IRQs: None > Compatible Router: 8086:122e > > Up through 2.05, ACPI crashed the kernel during boot(2.4 and 2.6) - > I posted here about that... I'm going to try this weekend with > the just flashed 2.06 - even though the changelog doesn't indicate > anything changed wrt ACPI. > > The problem was, iirc, was scanning one of the tables - I can't find > the message now :( If you are up for a little debugging and comfortable with building your own kernels, then please enable the relaxed-aml-checking and debug options in the ACPI kernel config. Those, and dmidecode output, will provide useful info to the ACPI folks. Jeff - 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/