linux-kernel - Re: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4)

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Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:06:23 +0100
From:	Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Darren Salt <linux@...mustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4)

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:15:21PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
>
>> As things stand, this is likely to be a problem for anybody using lenny on
>> Eee hardware and upgrading (on their own) to 2.6.29, given that that
>> workaround is present in eeepc-acpi-scripts in lenny.
>>
>> Anyway, removing that option fixes the problem.
>
> Ok. I'll look into ensuring that these don't collide, but fundamentally
> the problem here is distributions using broken options rather than
> fixing the problem properly in the first place.
>
>> > BIOS bug. There's an explicit delay in the eee bios for some reason, and
>> > I haven't found any straightforward way to avoid it.
>>
>> BIOS bug or no, the fact remains that this is (AFAICS) a regression.
>
> You don't get properly working hotkeys otherwise, to the best of my
> recollection. There's an entry on the kernel bugzilla about this
> somewhere.
> --
> Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12243
If I understand things correctly, this was already the case before,
but the kernel boot was slower, so we could'nt see that.
If it's not the case, someone with a 901 should try bisecting (I only
have a 701).


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Corentin Chary
http://xf.iksaif.net
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