Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263018AbTIVGpY (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2003 02:45:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263019AbTIVGpX (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2003 02:45:23 -0400 Received: from mail2.sonytel.be ([195.0.45.172]:11907 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263018AbTIVGpW (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2003 02:45:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:44:13 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Jos Hulzink cc: Roger Luethi , acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: Vaio doesn't poweroff with 2.4.22 In-Reply-To: <200309211650.18881.josh@stack.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1527 Lines: 39 On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Jos Hulzink wrote: > On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 15:17, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > If I turn off CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC I get: > > | ACPI disabled because your bios is from 00 and too old > > | You can enable it with acpi=force > > | Sony Vaio laptop detected. > > > > and ACPI is disabled. Halt doesn't work. > > > > If I then pass `acpi=force' to explicitly enable ACPI, `halt' works again > > and powers off the machine, but `reboot' causes a black screen with IDE > > disk spun down, but no restart. > > > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > My PIII 650 with 2000 BIOS boots linux with acpi disabled for the same reason, > unless force ACPI support. It reboots fine with ACPI forced. The ACPI support > of this Intel BX mobo is good, so this is a false negative IMHO. (I wonder if > the check is correct, shouldn't it say 2000 instead of 00 ?) If year < 90 it adds 2000 so that's OK. But the code needs ACPI from 2001 or more recent, so my BIOS from 2000 fails... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/