From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964985AbVHSQWL (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:22:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964988AbVHSQWL (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:22:11 -0400 Received: from 64-60-250-34.cust.telepacific.net ([64.60.250.34]:57093 "EHLO panta-1.pantasys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964985AbVHSQWJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:22:09 -0400 Message-ID: <43060731.10002@pantasys.com> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:22:09 -0700 From: Peter Buckingham User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050602) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Bruno CC: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc6-git10 test report [x86_64](WITHOUT NVIDIA MODULE) References: <1124401950.14825.13.camel@home-lap.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <1124405533.14825.24.camel@home-lap> <20050818230349.GC22993@wotan.suse.de> <1124410753.14825.32.camel@home-lap> <4305FCF1.6020905@pantasys.com> <20050819154639.GL22993@wotan.suse.de> <4306002F.4000000@pantasys.com> <20050819155332.GM22993@wotan.suse.de> <430601C5.5080505@pantasys.com> <1124467902.14825.41.camel@home-lap> In-Reply-To: <1124467902.14825.41.camel@home-lap> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Aug 2005 16:21:54.0859 (UTC) FILETIME=[1D230FB0:01C5A4DA] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sean Bruno wrote: > Well, there doesn't appear to be any reference to a setting in my BIOS > for this size(IOMMU). So I don't think that I can change it! :( well, it doesn't really matter since the kernel enables the IOMMU anyway. if you want to change the size you can pass that as a parameter on the command line. > The machine is working quite a bit better with pci=noacpi in leu of > disabling ACPI in the BIOS, but there are still those nasty errors in > reference to the ACPI tables being broken: > ACPI-0362: *** Error: Looking up [\_SB_.PCI0.LNK0] in namespace, > AE_NOT_FOUND > search_node ffff8101428572c0 start_node ffff8101428572c0 return_node > 0000000000000000 since it doesn't look like you'll get a bios fix for this you may want to look at building a custom dsdt. the kernel can load a custom dsdt from an initrd/initramfs. have a look at the acpi site (acpi.sf.net?). they talk about what's needed to do this. basically you can get your dsdt from /proc/acpi/dsdt and disassemble it using the iasl tools, fix it and then load it with an initrd. note that this is not really a trivial task :-( > And this one about the 8254 timer: > ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC i've seen this before.. i think this may be related to the timer override not being done for your system (again strangely a bios bug...). why don't you try passing acpi_skip_timer_override on the command line. > And finally, I think that something else kind of wierd is happening with > the on-board sensors. lm_sensors is having trouble detecting the fan > speeds and temperatures of the main board, but I will take that up with > their developers. i think this may well be related to the ACPI issues you are having, since this is how the information is normally gathered. peter