On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Viatcheslav Kochepasov wrote: > Any support would be highly appreciated. Heh, although this is called ibm-acpi, we really cather only to thinkpads on this list. > It seems that old version of IBM BIOS with ACPI v1.02 (1.0b) has an issue > with linux x86 kernel 2.6. > One may read it as linux x86 kernel 2.6.32 does not provide minimum support > for old ACPI v1.02 (1.0b). There are some kernel parameters that increase compatibility with very old ACPI, but I don't know them from memory. Anyway, you might find better help in the linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list. > 2) reboot performs linux shutdown and hangs on message "Restarting system." There are kernel parameters that change the reboot strategy as well. > Is there any known compatibility issues and workaround to get kernel 2.6.32 > to do a reboot on old ACPI? There are quite a number of those :-( The kernel command-line parameters for 2.6.32 (which you have to supply through the bootloader) are here: http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6.git/blob/22763c5cf3690a681551162c15d34d935308c8d7:/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
