On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 3/26/09, Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [CC linux-acpi] > > Thanks for reporting this bug / issue. Your hardware is probably > defective by design - that is, it doesn't follow the ACPI spec. But > we can't blame users for that :-). > > I take it this isn't a regression, i.e. if you've tried earlier > kernels, it's never worked any better? This is new hardware, and 2.6.29 is the first kernel I installed, so I can't say. > > You say this is a severe delay - but your logs show 0.5 seconds only, > is that right? Just to get it clear. > Right, but Arjan showed that 1s boot time for kernel is possible, so 0.5s is quite severe respect to this :). I'm still way far from 1s, though, due to an other issue that wastes >1s, i.e. tsc clocksource unstable. > Currently there is no option to force polling, sorry. I'm _guessing_ > this was a deliberate omission. But I can sympathise that even 0.5s > boot delay is bad on a netbook. > Yes. Do you think that changing olpc_ec_timeout kernel parameter may help in getting the timeout sooner? > Feel free to create a new bugzilla entry. You can attach the full > output of dmesg, but acpidump is probably not required. What would be > really helpful is if you could file on bugzilla, and attach a full > debug trace. I.e. as well as the normal dmesg, attach the dmesg > output after recompiling with this change: > bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12949 full debug dmesg: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=20695 Thanks, Corrado -- __________________________________________________________________________ dott. Corrado Zoccolo mailto:czoccolo@xxxxxxxxx PhD - Department of Computer Science - University of Pisa, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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
