Re: Incorrect ACPI blacklisting of ASUS P4B266 ?

[Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 28 April 2009 19:15:47 Olivier Berger wrote:> Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm thinking about some kind of warning message that might be provided> by the kernel.> > Currently, the blacklisting issues something like : >  xxx detected : force use of acpi=ht > > Maybe in some greylisted cases (like such ASUS P4B266), an additional> message may be issued, something like :>  xxx detected : may work with acpi=force (test at own risk)> or something like that ?Sounds like a good idea.Something like that (not tested at all).I could imagine Len adds this one if you give it a try and seethe message popping up in dmesg.
ACPI: Some latest P4B266 BIOSes prefer acpi, but get blacklisted, notify user

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
--- arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c |    3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c===================================================================--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c@@ -1496,6 +1496,9 @@ static int __init force_acpi_ht(const st 	if (!acpi_force) { 		printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s detected: force use of acpi=ht\n", 		       d->ident);+		if (!strcmp(d->ident, "ASUS P4B266"))+			printk(KERN_NOTICE "Latest BIOSes might work better"+			       " with acpi=force\n"); 		disable_acpi(); 		acpi_ht = 1; 	} else {ÿôèº{.nÇ+?·?®?­?+%?Ëÿ±éݶ¥?wÿº{.nÇ+?·¥?{±ý§)?ø§¶?¡Ü¨}©?²Æ zÚ&j:+v?¨þø¯ù®w¥þ?à2?Þ?¨è­Ú&¢)ß¡«a¶Úÿÿûàz¿äz¹Þ?ú+?ù???Ý¢jÿ?wèþf