Terminate ACPI hangs on Tyan S1834 SMP Kernel

[Michal Mertl]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Administrator IPA wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Stefan wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I have the same problem with an old Gigabyte GA6BX main PCB, equipted with
> two older 350MHz PII CPUs. The only way to avoid hanging on 'Terminate ACPI'
> is to disable ACPI (as recommended on 'stupid' BIOSes).
> I guess it is a faulty ACPI/BIOS implementation, although I have the newest
> BIOS installed.
>

I had that problem too. The system works with ACPI enabled and reboots
fine when I set hw.acpi.disable_on_poweroff to 0.

> Oliver
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone might know of any special options I should
> > set when building an SMP kernel using a Tyan S1834 board?
> >
> > I enabled the default SMP options in the GENERIC kernel config and the
> > machine runs fine but it hangs when I do a shutdown -r or shutdown -h
> >
> > It looks as if the system hangs when it tries to terminate ACPI
> >
> > To double check I recompiled the kernel without SMP and the system
> > shutdown fine.
> >
> > I would appreciate any info.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stefan
>
> --
> MfG
> O. Hartmann


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