Error ...

[steven james]

Greetings,

If you're using the linuxbios_reset (kernel linuxbios patch), you can have
reset write 0x0e to 0xcf9. That will do a 3 second poweroff instead of a
simple reset. That should avoid the issue at least.

G'day,
sjames



On 18 Apr 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Jim Garlick <garlick at llnl.gov> writes:
> 
> > Sounds very similar to a problem observed on the SuperMicro P4DPR/DPE which
> > has the same winbond sensor chip.  The solution was to tell lm_sensors to
> > access the Winbond via ISA rather than I2C.
> > 
> > I think there is also some code in the p4dpr/p4dpe linuxbios port to notice
> > the memory initialization problem and work around it (e.g. wait a while
> > and reset?)  The details have faded but you might check the code.
> 
> So the details.  On Intels ICH3 southbridge there is an smbus/i2c controller
> that when it sees invalid on the bus it locks up.  But it only sees invalid
> data when you are actually using the bus.  Using lm_sensors just increases
> the probability that the smbus controller will lock up.
> 
> At which point a reboot will fail because SPD information cannot be
> read over the smbus, leading the LinuxBIOS to think you have no RAM.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge there is no fix.  This is just something
> that needs to be avoided.
> 
> Eric
> 
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