Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Lockup with 2.4.9-ac10 on Athlon | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2001 15:39:44 +0100 |
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davidsen@tmr.com said: > > Strange - mine works. Either with APM and 'apm=power-off' on the > > command line, or with ACPI and a hack to work around the incompetence of > > Abit's BIOS engineers.
> Is this something Linux could recognize and patch, like the Athlon > problem with the VIA chipset?
'Could', yes. 'Should', probably not. It's bad enough that we have to run binary-only code from people with this little clue, without having to apply patches to it as well.
This is the patch I was using at the time. It won't apply now.
Index: drivers/acpi/namespace/nsalloc.c =================================================================== RCS file: /inst/cvs/linux/drivers/acpi/namespace/Attic/nsalloc.c,v retrieving revision 1.1.2.5 diff -u -r1.1.2.5 nsalloc.c --- drivers/acpi/namespace/nsalloc.c 2001/06/21 09:40:16 1.1.2.5 +++ drivers/acpi/namespace/nsalloc.c 2001/08/11 15:58:51 @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ INCREMENT_NAME_TABLE_METRICS (sizeof (ACPI_NAMESPACE_NODE)); node->data_type = ACPI_DESC_TYPE_NAMED; + if (acpi_name == 0x5f555043) { + printk("Fixing up object 'CPU_' to name 'CPU0'\n"); + acpi_name = 0x30555043; + } node->name = acpi_name; node->reference_count = 1;
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