Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932408AbWBTJpF (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:45:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932411AbWBTJpF (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:45:05 -0500 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.194]:13910 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932408AbWBTJpE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:45:04 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LUTzlKovowm8kfuI714LBg4g5J0Aub0e4ZuoVTTa22wowhE+Zp5IeSesHqNMRhJ89+b4Yh5y5qT2VeROcHRCF9vdbVhxfHhyvk2Y0CB4eHQUuN9vCv4hdJCe9JxTaKxX09apBWkMkgiuy9nMwXQ1lYK4U2j3RSHTdFVsFGxRbz8= Message-ID: <81b0412b0602200145r77e99ddbvea55ce9aff07b575@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:45:02 +0100 From: "Alex Riesen" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around asus_acpi driver oopses on Samsung P30s and the like due to the ACPI implicit return Cc: "Alex Riesen" , acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, torvalds@osdl.org, mail@hboeck.de, len.brown@intel.com, Greek0@gmx.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060219211852.05d08f55.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051222174226.GB20051@hell.org.pl> <20060219125258.GB6041@steel.home> <20060219211852.05d08f55.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1394 Lines: 30 On 2/20/06, Andrew Morton wrote: > Alex Riesen wrote: > > > > FWIW, I need the patch below to stop ACPI freezing at boot on Asus S1300N. > > There is a BIOS update from Asus, but no mention of any fixes in ACPI, > > so as I have no means to backup the BIOS in case something goes wrong > > I didn't do the update. > > I think it'd be worth trying the update anyway please. Normally those > updating programs are pretty careful to not give you a dead box. You think? ... Still, it'll have to wait till the next weekend. I really cannot afford a "dead box" midweek. > > I found out (by putting printks in the initialization code) that a > > call to INI (whatever it is) of VGA_ (whatever this is) immediately > > freezes the notebook and the fan goes on shortly afterwards. > > > > Is this a recent problem, or did earlier 2.6.x kernels also fail? Yes. I think I got the notebook around 2.6.9, and it already had the problem. I don't remember what I did back than, probably run it with ACPI disabled, or maybe I made that workaround immediately (there were some sound problems without ACPI, I recall). - 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/