Re: linux-next: Tree for June 13: IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jun 26 2008 - 04:35:40 EST


On Tuesday, 24 of June 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > What does ACPI claim the trip points are set to in this case? On the
> > > 6125, if IRQ 2 is enabled in the APIC then the DSDT sets all the thermal
> > > trip points to 16 degrees C. I suspect this means that enabling IRQ 2 is
> > > the wrong thing to do on this chipset.
> >
> > Ah, indeed, thanks for the hint. This is the output of
> >
> > $ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ*/trip_points
> >
> > in the failing case:
> >
> > critical (S5): 105 C
> > passive: 16 C: tc1=1 tc2=2 tsp=100 devices=C000 C001
> > active[0]: 16 C: devices=C34F
> > active[1]: 16 C: devices=C350
> > active[2]: 16 C: devices=C351
> > active[3]: 16 C: devices=C352
> > critical (S5): 100 C
> > passive: 16 C: tc1=1 tc2=2 tsp=300 devices=C000 C001
> > critical (S5): 100 C
> > passive: 16 C: tc1=1 tc2=2 tsp=300 devices=C000 C001
>
> Can we call the ACPI BIOS to be terminally broken at this point?

It is broken, but the configuration worked before the patch. Consequently,
the patch introduces a regression.

Thanks,
Rafael
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