[LinuxBIOS] some more tyan/s2881 questions

[Ward Vandewege]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:00:27PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> 1. need to add acpi support in s2881 LinuxBIOS support to get it.
> Anyway 8111 acpi support is already there in Serengeti_leopard, so it
> will be easy to get that.

Thanks, I see that halt now powers off the machine properly (svn 2254)!

Still has the delays after

  ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP

on boot.

Thanks,
Ward.

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> [mailto:linuxbios-bounces at linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of Ward Vandewege
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 3:43 PM
> To: linuxbios at linuxbios.org
> Subject: [LinuxBIOS] some more tyan/s2881 questions
> 
> So the board is stable now. That's great.
> 
> Some observations:
> 
> 1. 'halt' no longer powers the machine off, which it does with the
> proprietary bios. 'halt -p' does the job though. LinuxBIOS oddity?
> 
> 2. reboots seem to cause problems sometimes. I'm not sure yet what
> causes
> this, but I've had problems with the machine hanging after
> 
>   ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
> 
> It normally sits there for a few seconds, but I had the machine in such
> a
> state that it simply hung at that point.
> 
> This may have had something to do with the IPMI card, which I'm
> experimenting
> with. I had to unplug the power before this problem went away, a cold
> restart
> didn't help. I will do more testing to see if I can pinpoint this.
> 
> Thanks for all your help so far!
> Ward.
> 
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