Disabled known-bad BIOS revisions
Riccardo Torrini
riccardo at torrini.org
Sun Aug 15 15:33:42 PDT 2004
As explained in UPDATING on 20040630, ACPI has been updated to disable
known-bad BIOS revisions. A message will be printed on the console...
Machine is a dual pIII/500, MoBo is an ASUS P2B-DS (dual+scsi)
Without hint.acpi.0.disabled="0" I got a "auto-reboot-without-panic"
after loading kernel (or after loading/skipping ACPI, it is too fast
so I can't see any message at all).
Because the entry for my MoBo doesn't have a related PR, I think we
have "imported" from other systems or from other "reliable sources".
I'd like to know if any of you has that board because I use by over
2 years without problems. I currently have enabled back ACPI and
rebuilded world again, it is up and running ;)
(only a "don't know if related" problem: after switching to sound and
snd_* my machine don't play any sound, device is found at boot but no
mixer nor dsp are created into /dev, I will send a separate message).
Other test I have done between jul/aug:
- kernel without SMP, no hint: GOOD, see the disabled message
- kernel with SMP, hint to enable ACPI: GOOD, no message
- kernel with SMP, no hint: FAIL, AUTO-REBOOT
Machine is a dual pIII/500 on this MoBo:
# grep -A6 ASUS.P2B-DS /usr/src/sys/dev/acpica/acpi_quirks
# ASUS P2B-DS 02/03/99
name: ASUS_P2B_DS
oem: FADT "ASUS " "P2B-DS "
oem_rev: FADT <= 0x58582e31
creator_rev: FADT <= 0x31303030
quirks: ACPI_Q_BROKEN
# ASUS P2B-DS 10/21/99
name: ASUS_P2B_2
oem: FADT "ASUS " "P2B-DS "
oem_rev: FADT <= 0x58582e32
creator_rev: FADT <= 0x31303030
quirks: ACPI_Q_BROKEN
Can I vote for "removing" this MoBo from quirks? What test can I do
to prove that is works? If you need an acpi dump you can found here:
ftp://ftp.torrini.org/pub/FreeBSD/trudy.acpidump-vt.gz
ftp://ftp.torrini.org/pub/FreeBSD/trudy.acpidump-vtd.gz
(first is acpidump -v -t, second is the same plus -d)
PS: please Cc:, I suspended subscription for holidays...
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Riccardo. ( http://www.GUFI.org/~vic/ )
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