From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
"Mirosław Zalewski" <miniopl@poczta.onet.pl>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, "Len Brown" <len.brown@intel.com>,
"Lin Ming" <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.32] Please cherry-pick Toshiba Satellite DSDT corruption workaround
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:36:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111122223601.GB31434@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111119051427.GB12471@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net>
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:14:27PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Mirosław Zalewski wrote[1]:
>
> > When kernel is invoked with ACPI support, it has various problems with USB
> > detection
> [...]
> > When finally booted, at least wireless driver (ath9k)
> > does not work. I heard that sound does not work as well, but haven't
> > tested it myself. With ACPI enabled, kernel is unable to shutdown computer
> > properly.
> [...]
> > This is known flaw of Toshiba Satellite C650/kernel. You can find various
> > posts around the net about it.
> >
> > Toshiba Satellite C650 comes in four variants:
> > PSC08E
> > PSC10E
> > PSC12E
> > PSC14E
> [...]
> > In July there was a BIOS update for 12E and 14E. The new BIOS is version 1.5
> > and it is said to fix ACPI issues on Linux [3]. Unfortunetly there is no new
> > BIOS for 08E and 10E machines.
>
> Mirosław confirmed that cherry-picking the following six patches on top
> of your linux-2.6.32.y tree brings his machine back to sanity:
>
> 729df0f848da (ACPICA: Add detection of corrupted/replaced DSDT, 2010-04-01)
> 69ec87efa815 (ACPICA: Add subsystem option to force copy of DSDT to local
> memory, 2010-04-01)
> 43323cb4c4b6 (ACPICA: Update DSDT copy/detection, 2010-04-07)
> aa2110cb1a75 (ACPI: add boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to fix corrupt DSDT,
> 2010-04-08)
> cce4f632db20 (ACPI: fix early DSDT dmi check warnings on ia64,
> 2010-05-12)
> 100cf87788c0 (ACPI: invoke DSDT corruption workaround on all Toshiba
> Satellite, 2010-09-28)
>
> Patches 1-5/6 have been in Debian squeeze since last September and seem
> to work well. Patch 6/6 turns on acpi=copy_dsdt by default for
> additional machines that need it, including Mirosław's.
These all do not look like the match up with the stable_kernel_rules.txt
file, do they?
Because of that, I can't take these patches, sorry.
greg k-h
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2011-11-19 5:14 ` [2.6.32] Please cherry-pick Toshiba Satellite DSDT corruption workaround Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-22 22:36 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-11-22 22:47 ` Jonathan Nieder
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