PaceBlade broken acpi/memory map

PaceBlade broken acpi/memory map

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

I have PaceBlade here, and its memory map is wrong, which leads to
ACPI refusing to load. [It does not mention "ACPI data" in the memory
map at all!]

And when I work around that, it crashes in processing _STA/_INI
methods. [Anyone from PaceBlade listening?]

								Pavel
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Re: [ACPI] PaceBlade broken acpi/memory map

[Ducrot Bruno]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:21:45PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have PaceBlade here, and its memory map is wrong, which leads to
> ACPI refusing to load. [It does not mention "ACPI data" in the memory
> map at all!]

I have made those patches to workaround that.  I have no time
to rediff it though (sorry), but it is easy to get it.  I also CC
to Robert Woerle because he has already send a PR to the
bios mainteners.

> 
> And when I work around that, it crashes in processing _STA/_INI
> methods. [Anyone from PaceBlade listening?]

Don't know what happens: I have no paceblade and it sound like it
is OK for Robert ?


this one is bad.  Only here in order to get the second diff apply cleanly.


--- linux-2.4.21-pre3-acpi-20030109-s4bios/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	2003/01/22 12:37:35	1.1
+++ linux-2.4.21-pre3-acpi-20030109-s4bios/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	2003/01/22 13:44:06
@@ -546,6 +546,12 @@
 	if (*pnr_map < 2)
 		return -1;
 
+	biosmap[(int) *pnr_map].addr = 0x0eef0000;
+	biosmap[(int) *pnr_map].size = 53248;
+	biosmap[(int) *pnr_map].type = E820_ACPI;
+	(*pnr_map)++;
+
+	
 	old_nr = *pnr_map;
 
 	/* bail out if we find any unreasonable addresses in bios map */





This one is the good one.  Need to be rediffed correctly, or to be changed for 2.5.


--- linux-2.4.21-pre3-acpi-20030109-s4bios/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	2003/01/27 13:46:37	1.2
+++ linux-2.4.21-pre3-acpi-20030109-s4bios/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c	2003/01/27 14:13:28
@@ -546,10 +546,47 @@
 	if (*pnr_map < 2)
 		return -1;
 
+	/*
+	 * For broken BIOS which do not declare an ACPI DATA properly,
+	 * even though ACPI NVS are here, we try to declare the 64ko as
+	 * ACPI DATA (and hope it will work).
+	 */
+	do {
+		int i;
+		int seen = 0;
+		struct e820entry new_entry;
+
+		old_nr = *pnr_map;
+		memset(&new_entry, 0, sizeof (new_entry));
+
+		for (i = 0; i < old_nr; i++) {
+			switch (biosmap[i].type) {
+			case E820_ACPI:
+				seen = 1;
+				break;
+			case E820_NVS:
+				new_entry.addr = biosmap[i].addr - 0x10000;
+				new_entry.size = 0x10000;
+				new_entry.type = E820_ACPI;
+				break;
+			default:
+				break;
+			}
+		}
+		if (!seen && new_entry.type == E820_ACPI) {
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "setup: found a ACPI NV region, but no ACPI DATA.  Trying to mark\n");
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "setup: %016Lx of size %016Lx as ACPI DATA.\n", new_entry.addr, new_entry.size);
+			memcpy(&biosmap[(int) *pnr_map], &new_entry, sizeof(new_entry));
+			(*pnr_map)++;
+		}
+	} while (0);
+
+#if 0
 	biosmap[(int) *pnr_map].addr = 0x0eef0000;
 	biosmap[(int) *pnr_map].size = 53248;
 	biosmap[(int) *pnr_map].type = E820_ACPI;
 	(*pnr_map)++;
+#endif
 
 	
 	old_nr = *pnr_map;



It is much better to kill the lines in #if 0 ... #endif of course.

Cheers,

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Re: PaceBlade broken acpi/memory map

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > I have PaceBlade here, and its memory map is wrong, which leads to
> > ACPI refusing to load. [It does not mention "ACPI data" in the memory
> > map at all!]
> 
> I have made those patches to workaround that.  I have no time

Yes, I have seen those... I also made a patch that enables you to do
that workaround from mem= options at kernel command line.

								Pavel
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Re: [ACPI] PaceBlade broken acpi/memory map

[Ducrot Bruno]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:39:55PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > I have PaceBlade here, and its memory map is wrong, which leads to
> > > ACPI refusing to load. [It does not mention "ACPI data" in the memory
> > > map at all!]
> > 
> > I have made those patches to workaround that.  I have no time
> 
> Yes, I have seen those... I also made a patch that enables you to do
> that workaround from mem= options at kernel command line.
> 

I doubt you received the latest one, since I have not make it public
unless this day.

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Re: [ACPI] PaceBlade broken acpi/memory map

[Robert]

Ducrot Bruno schrieb:

>On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:39:55PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>    
>>
>>>>I have PaceBlade here, and its memory map is wrong, which leads to
>>>>ACPI refusing to load. [It does not mention "ACPI data" in the memory
>>>>map at all!]
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I have made those patches to workaround that.  I have no time
>>>      
>>>
>>Yes, I have seen those... I also made a patch that enables you to do
>>that workaround from mem= options at kernel command line.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>I doubt you received the latest one, since I have not make it public
>unless this day.
>  
>
i did sent it to him since he recieved our machine from Suse Nuernberg

>  
>

Re: [ACPI] PaceBlade broken acpi/memory map

[Ducrot Bruno]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:53:18PM +0100, Robert wrote:
> 
> 
> Ducrot Bruno schrieb:
> 
> >On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:39:55PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >>>>I have PaceBlade here, and its memory map is wrong, which leads to
> >>>>ACPI refusing to load. [It does not mention "ACPI data" in the memory
> >>>>map at all!]
> >>>>       
> >>>>
> >>>I have made those patches to workaround that.  I have no time
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>Yes, I have seen those... I also made a patch that enables you to do
> >>that workaround from mem= options at kernel command line.
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I doubt you received the latest one, since I have not make it public
> >unless this day.
> > 
> >
> i did sent it to him since he recieved our machine from Suse Nuernberg
> 

Ah, OK.  Wasn't aware of that.  But why then making a mem= opitons in
that case.  I have take care to *not* use any mem= at all because that
can make things worse.

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Re: [ACPI] PaceBlade broken acpi/memory map

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > >>>>I have PaceBlade here, and its memory map is wrong, which leads to
> > >>>>ACPI refusing to load. [It does not mention "ACPI data" in the memory
> > >>>>map at all!]
> > >>>>       
> > >>>>
> > >>>I have made those patches to workaround that.  I have no time
> > >>>     
> > >>>
> > >>Yes, I have seen those... I also made a patch that enables you to do
> > >>that workaround from mem= options at kernel command line.
> > >>
> > >>   
> > >>
> > >
> > >I doubt you received the latest one, since I have not make it public
> > >unless this day.
> > > 
> > >
> > i did sent it to him since he recieved our machine from Suse Nuernberg
> > 
> 
> Ah, OK.  Wasn't aware of that.  But why then making a mem= opitons in
> that case.  I have take care to *not* use any mem= at all because that
> can make things worse.

I've received it after I made my patch, and I think that more machine
with broken tables will be created in future...

								Pavel
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...vgf orggre jura vgf serr.

Re: [ACPI] PaceBlade broken acpi/memory map

[Ducrot Bruno]

Hi Pavel,

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:44:49PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> I've received it after I made my patch, and I think that more machine
> with broken tables will be created in future...
> 

That it not the answer I expected.  To be more clear: you report errors
on _STA and _INI.  I don't know why.  But with my previous patch, it seems
that there is no such errors (but it is with 2.4).
And one of the suspect(s) for what I know is your mem= option patch.

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Re: PaceBlade broken acpi/memory map

[Ducrot Bruno]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:09:07PM +0100, Ducrot Bruno wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 06:44:49PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> > I've received it after I made my patch, and I think that more machine
> > with broken tables will be created in future...
> > 
> 
> That it not the answer I expected.  To be more clear: you report errors
> on _STA and _INI.  I don't know why.  But with my previous patch, it seems
> that there is no such errors (but it is with 2.4).
> And one of the suspect(s) for what I know is your mem= option patch.

Ok.  Found your patch in LKML.  Soon like to be OK.  Will see then what
hapens, but I need your dmesg.

Cheers,

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Re: [ACPI] PaceBlade broken acpi/memory map

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > I've received it after I made my patch, and I think that more machine
> > > with broken tables will be created in future...
> > > 
> > 
> > That it not the answer I expected.  To be more clear: you report errors
> > on _STA and _INI.  I don't know why.  But with my previous patch, it seems
> > that there is no such errors (but it is with 2.4).
> > And one of the suspect(s) for what I know is your mem= option patch.
> 
> Ok.  Found your patch in LKML.  Soon like to be OK.  Will see then what
> hapens, but I need your dmesg.

Sorry, I no longer have access to that machine :-(.
								Pavel
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