On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:14:27PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Mirosław Zalewski wrote[1]: > > > When kernel is invoked with ACPI support, it has various problems with USB > > detection > [...] > > When finally booted, at least wireless driver (ath9k) > > does not work. I heard that sound does not work as well, but haven't > > tested it myself. With ACPI enabled, kernel is unable to shutdown computer > > properly. > [...] > > This is known flaw of Toshiba Satellite C650/kernel. You can find various > > posts around the net about it. > > > > Toshiba Satellite C650 comes in four variants: > > PSC08E > > PSC10E > > PSC12E > > PSC14E > [...] > > In July there was a BIOS update for 12E and 14E. The new BIOS is version 1.5 > > and it is said to fix ACPI issues on Linux [3]. Unfortunetly there is no new > > BIOS for 08E and 10E machines. > > Mirosław confirmed that cherry-picking the following six patches on top > of your linux-2.6.32.y tree brings his machine back to sanity: > > 729df0f848da (ACPICA: Add detection of corrupted/replaced DSDT, 2010-04-01) > 69ec87efa815 (ACPICA: Add subsystem option to force copy of DSDT to local > memory, 2010-04-01) > 43323cb4c4b6 (ACPICA: Update DSDT copy/detection, 2010-04-07) > aa2110cb1a75 (ACPI: add boot option acpi=copy_dsdt to fix corrupt DSDT, > 2010-04-08) > cce4f632db20 (ACPI: fix early DSDT dmi check warnings on ia64, > 2010-05-12) > 100cf87788c0 (ACPI: invoke DSDT corruption workaround on all Toshiba > Satellite, 2010-09-28) > > Patches 1-5/6 have been in Debian squeeze since last September and seem > to work well. Patch 6/6 turns on acpi=copy_dsdt by default for > additional machines that need it, including Mirosław's. These all do not look like the match up with the stable_kernel_rules.txt file, do they? Because of that, I can't take these patches, sorry. greg k-h -- 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
