Re: [PATCH 4/29] x86-i8259-shutdown

[Sytse Wielinga]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:12:00PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 05:12:43AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > Could you try this patch on your system with acpi that
> > > is having problems.
> > > 
> > > The patch needs some work before it goes into a mainline kernel
> > > as I have hacked the call to acpi_power_off_prepare into roughly
> > > the proper position in the call chain instead of use a proper
> > > hook.  But I can't quickly find an existing hook in the proper
> > > location.
> > 
> > I had to fix a couple of typos ("apci" and "offf") to get it to compile.
> > Once I did that, the patch made shutdown work again.
> 
> Thanks.  Now I just need to come up with the good version unless one of
> the acpi guys wants to volunteer.

On my box this patch breaks shutdown instead, while it was working without it
on -rc2-mm1.

I have an Asus A7V8X motherboard with a VIA VT8377 (KT400) north bridge and a
VT8235 south bridge (according to lspci). The IO-APIC is used for interrupt
routing.

    Sytse
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