Re: "ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode" wastes time on startup

From: Alan Jenkins
Date: Fri Mar 27 2009 - 06:10:55 EST


On 3/26/09, Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Alan Jenkins
> <sourcejedi.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 3/26/09, Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Currently there is no option to force polling, sorry. I'm _guessing_
>> this was a deliberate omission. But I can sympathise that even 0.5s
>> boot delay is bad on a netbook.
>>
> Yes. Do you think that changing olpc_ec_timeout kernel parameter may
> help in getting the timeout sooner?
>

No, that's something different. There's no boot option to change the timeout.

>> Feel free to create a new bugzilla entry. You can attach the full
>> output of dmesg, but acpidump is probably not required. What would be
>> really helpful is if you could file on bugzilla, and attach a full
>> debug trace. I.e. as well as the normal dmesg, attach the dmesg
>> output after recompiling with this change:
>>
>
> bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12949
> full debug dmesg: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=20695

Great.
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