The patch titled
Remove Dell Optiplex GX240 from the ACPI blacklist
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
remove-dell-optiplex-gx240-from-the-acpi-blacklist.patch
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Subject: Remove Dell Optiplex GX240 from the ACPI blacklist
From: Tear <tarrqt@xxxxxxxxx>
I have a Dell Optiplex GX240 and when I boot Linux, ACPI gets set up by only
acpi=ht. dmesg shows the following line:
DELL GX240 detected: force use of acpi=ht
Everything seemed to be fine. However, I discovered that everything is not
fine. The USB controller works so slowly that copying a few (uncached) 1
megabyte large photos from a USB-enabled digital camera takes many minutes
instead of a couple of seconds.
I am using Linux 2.6.21.1 on a Debian 4.0 ("Etch") system.
I thought that this might be related to ACPI. So I tried to boot with _only_
"acpi=force" appended to the kernel command line. Voila, the USB controller
started to work at full speed and copying photos from my digital camera took
only seconds.
I tested the system with "acpi=force" and could not find anything which did
not work. So, can we please remove Dell Optiplex GX240 from the blacklist in
..../arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
? The attached patch does just that: It removes Dell Optiplex GX240 from the
ACPI blacklist.
I thought that this might be related to interrupts and APIC as well. (Note
that this is APIC, not ACPI.) I tried booting with _only_ "noapic" and
"nolapic" appended to the command line. Again, the USB controller started to
work at full speed.
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c~remove-dell-optiplex-gx240-from-the-acpi-blacklist arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c~remove-dell-optiplex-gx240-from-the-acpi-blacklist
+++ a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c
@@ -971,14 +971,6 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __initdata a
},
{
.callback = force_acpi_ht,
- .ident = "DELL GX240",
- .matches = {
- DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Dell Computer Corporation"),
- DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "OptiPlex GX240"),
- },
- },
- {
- .callback = force_acpi_ht,
.ident = "HP VISUALIZE NT Workstation",
.matches = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Hewlett-Packard"),
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from tarrqt@xxxxxxxxx are
remove-dell-optiplex-gx240-from-the-acpi-blacklist.patch
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