Toshiba Tecra vs ACPI

Toshiba Tecra vs ACPI

[Brown, Len]

Does anybody have a Toshiba Tecra that boots an ACPI-enabled kernel?
If yes, can you send me the output from dmidecode so that I can identify
the BIOS date?
http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/  (I'd also be intersted in the output
of acpidmp)

I've found that the Tecra 8100 has AML bugs that we can't handle
(missing return statements when they are required).  And we will not be
able to handle them any time soon (w/o a DSDT over-ride).

So I'm thinking about black-listing the 8100 by default; and the 8000
and 8200 may be right behind it.  Unfortunately, the DMI info for the
8100 has an empty product name under system information, where one would
expect to see "Tecra 8100".  So I'm thinking about disabling ACPI by
default on all systems with DMI BIOS vendor "TOSHIBA", BIOS Release Date
<= 10/07/2002 -- the date of the latest BIOS for the 8100; and Base
Board product name "Portable PC".

Thanks,
-Len
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Re: [ACPI] Toshiba Tecra vs ACPI

[Anders Rune Jensen]

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"Brown, Len" <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Does anybody have a Toshiba Tecra that boots an ACPI-enabled kernel?

I have a Tecra 8200 that boots 2.6.0-test4-mm1 just fine. I've
included the dmidecode output, the acpidmp and a dmesg. The bios
should be the latest available (1.6 from 2002). I normally run apm
though but have been running acpi before with 2.4 kernels.

> If yes, can you send me the output from dmidecode so that I can identify
> the BIOS date?
> http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/  (I'd also be intersted in the output
> of acpidmp)
>
> I've found that the Tecra 8100 has AML bugs that we can't handle
> (missing return statements when they are required).  And we will not be
> able to handle them any time soon (w/o a DSDT over-ride).
>
> So I'm thinking about black-listing the 8100 by default; and the 8000
> and 8200 may be right behind it.  Unfortunately, the DMI info for the
> 8100 has an empty product name under system information, where one would
> expect to see "Tecra 8100".  So I'm thinking about disabling ACPI by
> default on all systems with DMI BIOS vendor "TOSHIBA", BIOS Release Date
> <= 10/07/2002 -- the date of the latest BIOS for the 8100; and Base
> Board product name "Portable PC".
>
> Thanks,
> -Len

-- 
Anders Rune Jensen
http://www.gnulinux.dk/~arj/


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