Hi Mark,
On 2/23/22 17:07, Mark Cilissen wrote:
> On this board the ACPI RSDP structure points to both a RSDT and an XSDT,
> but the XSDT points to a truncated FADT. This causes all sorts of trouble
> and usually a complete failure to boot after the following error occurs:
>
> ACPI Error: Unsupported address space: 0x20 (*/hwregs-*)
> ACPI Error: AE_SUPPORT, Unable to initialize fixed events (*/evevent-*)
> ACPI: Unable to start ACPI Interpreter
>
> This leaves the ACPI implementation in such a broken state that subsequent
> kernel subsystem initialisations go wrong, resulting in among others
> mismapped PCI memory, SATA and USB enumeration failures, and freezes.
>
> As this is an older embedded platform that will likely never see any BIOS
> updates to address this issue and its default shipping OS only complies to
> ACPI 1.0, work around this by forcing `acpi=rsdt`. This patch, applied on
> top of Linux 5.10.102, was confirmed on real hardware to fix the issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Cilissen <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Wow, you got it working, cool!
The patch looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Regards,
Hans
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
> index 5b6d1a95776f..7caf4da075cd 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
> @@ -1328,6 +1328,17 @@ static int __init disable_acpi_pci(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static int __init disable_acpi_xsdt(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
> +{
> + if (!acpi_force) {
> + pr_notice("%s detected: force use of acpi=rsdt\n", d->ident);
> + acpi_gbl_do_not_use_xsdt = TRUE;
> + } else {
> + pr_notice("Warning: DMI blacklist says broken, but acpi XSDT forced\n");
> + }
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> static int __init dmi_disable_acpi(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
> {
> if (!acpi_force) {
> @@ -1451,6 +1462,20 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id acpi_dmi_table[] __initconst = {
> DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "TravelMate 360"),
> },
> },
> + /*
> + * Boxes that need ACPI XSDT use disabled due to corrupted tables
> + */
> + {
> + .callback = disable_acpi_xsdt,
> + .ident = "SEGA AALE",
> + .matches = {
> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "NEC"),
> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Bearlake CRB Board"),
> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "Phoenix Technologies LTD"),
> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VERSION, "V1.12"),
> + DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_DATE, "02/01/2011"),
> + },
> + },
> {}
> };
>
>
> base-commit: cfb92440ee71adcc2105b0890bb01ac3cddb8507
