ACPI: Call for testers

ACPI: Call for testers

[Grover, Andrew]

Hi all,

Since the last ACPI revision made it into the 2.4 kernel (10 months ago) we
have been making steady improvement. Successive versions have been tested by
subscribers to the acpi-devel mailing list, but to really be confident this
patch is suitable for inclusion in the 2.4 stable branch, it needs testing
from an even wider audience. We're hoping you can help. :)

There are three pieces of data we're looking for, from as wide a spectrum of
x86 machines as possible:

1) Does it boot?
(Does the system hang, oops, or otherwise fail in a non-graceful manner)

2) Does it configure PCI interrupts properly?
(/proc/interrupts may not be the same before and after, but devices should
work like they did before the patch)

3) How do your results compare to the existing ACPI code in 2.4.x? Anything
else interesting?
(optional)

If you're willing, please download the ACPI patch from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36832&release_id=11156
2

Please report your observations either to me, or preferably to
acpi-devel@sourceforge.net.

Thanks for your feedback!

Regards -- Andy


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Andrew Grover
Intel Labs / Mobile Architecture
andrew.grover@intel.com

Re: ACPI: Call for testers

[Jeff Garzik]

Grover, Andrew wrote:
> If you're willing, please download the ACPI patch from here:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36832&release_id=11156
> 2


This patch get a number of rejects against 2.4.20-BK-current :(

Also, posting the patch's real URL would be useful :)  I can't stand 
SourceForge's multiple levels of indirection, just to get to a file. 
For other's, here's the 2.4.20-pre7 patch, without indirection:
http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/acpi/acpi-20020918-2.4.20-pre7.diff.gz

Is there a BK repo I can pull from to get these changes?

	Jeff

RE: ACPI: Call for testers

[Grover, Andrew]

> From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com] 
> > If you're willing, please download the ACPI patch from here:

> This patch get a number of rejects against 2.4.20-BK-current :(

You're too smart for your own good. :)

Yes, 2.4.20-BK-current will not patch cleanly. However, you can pull from
http://linux-acpi.bkbits.net/linux-2.4-acpi for the patch against 2.4 bk
current.

> Also, posting the patch's real URL would be useful :)  I can't stand 
> SourceForge's multiple levels of indirection, just to get to a file. 
> For other's, here's the 2.4.20-pre7 patch, without indirection:
>
http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/acpi/acpi-20020918-2.4.20-pre7.dif
f.gz

Thanks, yes, that is a better URL.

Regards -- Andy

Re: ACPI: Call for testers

[Hiroshi Takekawa]

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Here is my ACPI test result.
Note: I'm not in acpi-devel mailing list.

> There are three pieces of data we're looking for, from as wide a spectrum of
> x86 machines as possible:
> 1) Does it boot?
> (Does the system hang, oops, or otherwise fail in a non-graceful manner)

It boots.  But ACPI doesn't work properly.

-- partial dmesg output, full output is attached.
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20020918
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd96e, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
 tbxface-0099 [03] Acpi_load_tables      : ACPI Tables successfully loaded
 tbxface-0107: *** Error: Acpi_load_tables: Could not load namespace: AE_AML_INT
ERNAL
 tbxface-0116: *** Error: Acpi_load_tables: Could not load tables: AE_AML_INTERN
AL
ACPI: Unable to load the System Description Tables
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
---------------

AE_AML_INTERNAL was AE_STACK_UNDERFLOW on 2.5.21 kernel.
If 2.4-acpi is replaced with 2.5-acpi, I will not be able to even
power-off my computer with shutdown -h.  My laptop has damaged BIOS?

> 3) How do your results compare to the existing ACPI code in 2.4.x? Anything
> else interesting?
> (optional)

I attached dmesg outputs of 2.4.20-pre5-ac1 and 2.4.20-pre7+acpi-patch.
If you require any more information, please contact me.

--
Hiroshi Takekawa <sian-whu2oojL+5h4Eiagz67IpQ@public.gmane.org>


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