From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763080AbZE1VQo (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 17:16:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760102AbZE1VQh (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 17:16:37 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:33676 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758511AbZE1VQg (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 17:16:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 23:16:32 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Michael S. Zick" Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG FIX] Make x86_32 uni-processor Atomic ops, Atomic Message-ID: <20090528211632.GH11477@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200905221139.26941.lkml@morethan.org> <200905280829.15672.lkml@morethan.org> <20090528205008.GF11477@elf.ucw.cz> <200905281559.00652.lkml@morethan.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200905281559.00652.lkml@morethan.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > > I have seen some problems on via c7m based machines, where some 'smart > > > > bios person' implemented EC access in AML (normally, it is accessed > > > > from ec.c driver). Maybe you have similary bad bios? > > > > > > How to tell or distingush? > > > Did your looking at the dmidecode output show you that? > > > > Disassemble DSDT, and if you see strange code duplicating kernel's > > ec.c driver, you have similar problem... > > Someone did that but wasn't looking for "strange code" - just fixing > some entry size errors. > You can find the replacement DSDT here: > http://forum.netbookuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=6512#p6512 > > (Which I am not using, since it mostly cosmetic.) Ok, it does not seem to have braindead EC implementation. The DSDT does not look familiar, so it may be different issue. (Or it is same issue and we were not able to debug it due to all the BIOS problems.) Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html