On Saturday 19 January 2008 05:16, René Rebe wrote: > Hi Len, > > now that was some time between the mails :-) > > Unfortunately the 8-core box is sort of running in production > and I can not randomly boot kernels. > > Passing acpi_os=whatever did not really changed anything > back in the days when I tried that. Actually the box is running > quite fine (normal server load, no suspend or so) though currently > an older 2.6.18+openvz kernel as that was the only openvz patch- > set that was stable, all the other openvz patchsets locked up sooner > than later ... > > If you are still interested in the acpidump I can hunting for it. Yes, I'm still interseted in the acpidump. While I hear a lot from folks running Linux on Apple laptops, I hear less from folks running Linux on Apple servers -- so I don't have this acpidump yet. Hopefully the acpidump will tell all, and we'll have no need for testing. thanks, -Len > > On 19.01.2008, at 04:36, Len Brown wrote: > > > On Wednesday 29 August 2007 07:49, René Rebe wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I just post because my dmesg says so: > >> > >> ACPI: System BIOS is requesting _OSI(Linux) > >> ACPI: Please test with "acpi_osi=!Linux" > >> Please send dmidecode to linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> > >> Handle 0x003A, DMI type 0, 24 bytes > >> BIOS Information > >> Vendor: Apple Computer, Inc. > >> Version: MP21.88Z.007F.B02.0703191612 > >> Release Date: 03/19/07 > >> > >> Handle 0x003B, DMI type 1, 27 bytes > >> System Information > >> Manufacturer: Apple Computer, Inc. > >> Product Name: MacPro2,1 > >> Version: 1.0 > >> > >> ... > >> > >> If you need more let me know. I mostly looked thru the dmesg > >> because the box shuts down sometimes, randomly. Maybe too hot? > >> But I still investigate. > >> > >> However, the box (2 Quad-Core CPUs) even awakes from echo mem > > >> /sys/power/state (without graphic though, maybe s2ram posting would > >> fix > >> that - but I do not really care about the graphic as it is indended > >> to be used > >> as server anyway). > > > > Thanks for the dmidecode output. > > > > Do you notice any functional difference when booting with > > > > "acpi_osi=Linux" (default for 2.6.22 and earlier) > > vs. > > "acpi_osi=!Linux" (default for 2.6.23 and later) > > > > Also, please send me the output from acpidump. > > > > thanks, > > -Len > > > > ps > > If you don't have acpidump, you can get it from pmtools here: > > http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/utilities.php > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
