[ACPI] p2b-ds blacklisted?

[ACPI] p2b-ds blacklisted?

[Sven Köhler]

Hi,

my P2B-DS is blacklisted and the kernel forced acpi=ht. i wonder why 
because P2B-D is not blacklisted.

There is no comment or any other hint for a reason in dmi_scan.c :-(

I would like to try what happens if i remove the board from the 
blacklist. What can i test to see if it works properly? And what is the 
worse case of what could happen?

Do i have to edit dmi_scan.c for my test or is there something like 
acpi=force?

Re: [ACPI] p2b-ds blacklisted?

[Andrew de Quincey]

On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 3:07 pm, Sven Köhler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my P2B-DS is blacklisted and the kernel forced acpi=ht. i wonder why
> because P2B-D is not blacklisted.
>
> There is no comment or any other hint for a reason in dmi_scan.c :-(
>
> I would like to try what happens if i remove the board from the
> blacklist. What can i test to see if it works properly? And what is the
> worse case of what could happen?
>
> Do i have to edit dmi_scan.c for my test or is there something like
> acpi=force?

I'm sure I saw a comment somewhere saying the P2B-S was blacklisted because of 
"bogus IRQ routing". It was in the blacklisting code, but I can't remember 
where, or if it was 2.4 or 2.6.

Re: [ACPI] p2b-ds blacklisted?

[Sven Köhler]

> I'm sure I saw a comment somewhere saying the P2B-S was blacklisted because of 
> "bogus IRQ routing". It was in the blacklisting code, but I can't remember 
> where, or if it was 2.4 or 2.6.

Well, the P2B-S is in blacklist.c in 2.4.22.

What does the entry in blacklist.c mean? Does this entry mean acpi=ht is 
forced like the entry for the P2B-DS in dmi_scan.c?

Is this a hardwired problem on the Motherboard? Or might this be fixed 
with the latest BIOS?

I'd like to try ACPI on my P2B-DS anyway. I think there was an append 
line to disable ACPI IRQ Routing - was it acpi=pci?

Re: [ACPI] p2b-ds blacklisted?

[Andrew de Quincey]

On Wednesday 01 Oct 2003 3:53 pm, Sven Köhler wrote:
> > I'm sure I saw a comment somewhere saying the P2B-S was blacklisted
> > because of "bogus IRQ routing". It was in the blacklisting code, but I
> > can't remember where, or if it was 2.4 or 2.6.
>
> Well, the P2B-S is in blacklist.c in 2.4.22.
>
> What does the entry in blacklist.c mean? Does this entry mean acpi=ht is
> forced like the entry for the P2B-DS in dmi_scan.c?

Not sure.. I think it is likely to disable ACPI completely.

> Is this a hardwired problem on the Motherboard? Or might this be fixed
> with the latest BIOS?

It would be a problem with the DSDT code in the BIOS. It might be fixed in a 
later one. 

There have been lots of ACPI IRQ routing bugfixes (not all in the mainline 
kernel yet); maybe the P2B-S routing is solved by one of these, maybe not...

> I'd like to try ACPI on my P2B-DS anyway. I think there was an append
> line to disable ACPI IRQ Routing - was it acpi=pci?

pci=noacpi should do it I think.

Re: [ACPI] p2b-ds blacklisted?

[Jeff Garzik]

Sven Köhler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my P2B-DS is blacklisted and the kernel forced acpi=ht. i wonder why 
> because P2B-D is not blacklisted.


Asus P2B-D (Dual Pentium2 400 Mhz SMP motherboard) works fine under 
ACPI, and has worked fine for ages.  I'll be quite disappointed if 
recent ACPI updates broke it.

	Jeff

Re: [ACPI] p2b-ds blacklisted?

[Sven Köhler]

>> my P2B-DS is blacklisted and the kernel forced acpi=ht. i wonder why 
>> because P2B-D is not blacklisted.
> 
> Asus P2B-D (Dual Pentium2 400 Mhz SMP motherboard) works fine under 
> ACPI, and has worked fine for ages.  I'll be quite disappointed if 
> recent ACPI updates broke it.

No it doesn't. Only P2B-S and P2B-DS are listed. I don't know why yet, 
but i will report if ACPI works fine. I think i'll try this tonight 
although nobody has prophesied me what might happen yet.

Will the kernel just stop booting? or will my machine just crash and 
damage my reiserfs?

Re: [ACPI] p2b-ds blacklisted?

[Mike Dresser]

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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, [ISO-8859-15] Sven Köhler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> my P2B-DS is blacklisted and the kernel forced acpi=ht. i wonder why
> because P2B-D is not blacklisted.

Well, I remember having issues with the P2B-D boards under Windows, in
that the second cpu would stay at 100% cpu usage in task manager.
Suggested fix was a hardware modification that ASUS would perform, or the
user could do themselves.

Probably unrelated :)

Mike

Re: [ACPI] p2b-ds blacklisted?

[Sven Köhler]

> I would like to try what happens if i remove the board from the 
> blacklist.

So that was what i just did. I removed the board from the blacklist, 
recompiled the kernel and booted.
The kernel started and there were some issues with the interrupt 
routing. I don't remember the exact messages but i could post a dmesg if 
you like.
With "pci=noapci" the computer hang upon loading the kernel module for 
the SCSI controller. I remember that to be an issue too when i had 
windows2k installed on that box but i could "fix" that by changing the 
IRC setting in the BIOS. Changing those settings didn't help Linux to boot.

At first sight ACPI (without pci=noacpi) seemed to work but pressing the 
power button didn't generate any events although the power button was 
detected properly during boot.

After all i think i know why P2B-S and -DS are blacklisted. The board 
with on-board SCSI controller are messed up somehow.

I haven't tried to install BIOS 1014beta3 yet. BIOS 1014beta2 is 
currently installed but i guess the update won't solve anything.

With acpi=ht it works for now, but doesn't acpi=ht imply pci=noacpi?

RE: [ACPI] p2b-ds blacklisted?

[Brown, Len]

> > I would like to try what happens if i remove the board from the 
> > blacklist.
> 
> ... I removed the board from the blacklist, 

> The kernel started and there were some issues with the interrupt 
> routing....

> With "pci=noapci" the computer hang upon loading the kernel 
> module for the SCSI controller.
...
> At first sight ACPI (without pci=noacpi) seemed to work but 
> pressing the 
> power button didn't generate any events although the power button was 
> detected properly during boot.

Nothing registered on the acpi interrupt in /proc/interrupts?

> After all i think i know why P2B-S and -DS are blacklisted. The board 
> with on-board SCSI controller are messed up somehow.
> 
> I haven't tried to install BIOS 1014beta3 yet. BIOS 1014beta2 is 
> currently installed but i guess the update won't solve anything.

Depends on the root cause -- try it.  If it works we can replace the current blacklist entry with one keyed off the BIOS date.

If you want Linux/ACPI to work on this board, or proof that the board can't possibly support it, then then file a bug:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
Category: Power Management
Component: ACPI

Attach the console log and /proc/interrupts of the failure, dmidecode output, and acpidmp output.

> With acpi=ht it works for now, but doesn't acpi=ht imply pci=noacpi?

Booting with acpi=force should be the same as removing the P2B-DS from the dmi blacklist.

acpi=ht will use ACPI for enumerating processors, and then ACPI will exit.
ACPI will not be used to configure interrupts and the interpreter will not
run so you'll get no run-time events.  If this system doesn't have HT and has MPS, then ACPI with acpi=ht does nothing for you that you don't have already.

pci=noacpi is the same as above except the interpreter _will_ run in support of run-time events.

Ie. Acpi=ht will give you "ACPI: Interpreter disabled" and pci=noacpi will not.

Cheers,
-Len