Re: [OOPS] Kernel powerdown

[Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>]

On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 16:44, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:

> > Does the machine power off successfully using ACPI when the NMI watchdog is
> > not enabled?
> 
> No, it never managed to power off with ACPI. It works with APM though.

Ah, that is the problem, then.

> > APM doesn't turn off the NMI afaik so why should ACPI have to?
> 
> Imho the problem will most likely go away when poweroff works properly
> on my board. I can supply whatever info you need to make it work, too ;)
> 
> The board is an Asus A7V.

See if the attached patch fixes it ...

	Robert Love

diff -urN linux-2.4.19/drivers/acpi/hardware/hwsleep.c linux/drivers/acpi/hardware/hwsleep.c
--- linux-2.4.19/drivers/acpi/hardware/hwsleep.c	Fri Mar 15 00:28:10 2002
+++ linux/drivers/acpi/hardware/hwsleep.c	Fri Mar 15 16:54:57 2002
@@ -152,6 +152,15 @@
 		return status;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Broken ACPI table on ASUS A7V:
+	 * it reports type 7, but poweroff is type 2
+	 */
+	if (type_a == 7 && type_b == 7 && sleep_state == ACPI_STATE_S5
+			&& !memcmp(acpi_gbl_DSDT->oem_id, "ASUS\0\0", 6)
+			&& !memcmp(acpi_gbl_DSDT->oem_table_id, "A7V", 3)) {
+		type_a = type_b = 2;
+	}
 	/* run the _PTS and _GTS methods */
 
 	MEMSET(&arg_list, 0, sizeof(arg_list));