Re: [LinuxBIOS] some more tyan/s2881 questions

[Ward Vandewege]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:00:27PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> 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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> So the board is stable now. That's great.
>
> Some observations:
> 'halt' no longer powers the machine off, which it does with the
>
> proprietary bios. 'halt -p' does the job though. LinuxBIOS oddity?
> 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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