[coreboot] ACPI support on M57SLI

Harald Gutmann harald.gutmann at gmx.net
Sun Jun 14 19:05:41 CEST 2009


On Sunday 14 June 2009 18:45:30 Florentin Demetrescu wrote:
> The power-off works..
>
> :)
1. check dmesg for error related to acpi.
2. check soft-power-off
3. check PowerNow! (modprobe powernow-k8) 
	http://www.twibble.org/Articles/amd-x2-powernow (overview)
4. check HPET (works with coreboot, but not with proprietary bios ;))
5. review my patch 

> What other tests I can/should do?
> (I have an Ubuntu Feisty installed on the coreboot test machine)
> Florentin
Thanks for testing,
kind regards,

Harald

> Quoting Harald Gutmann <harald.gutmann at gmx.net>:
> > Oooopppss.....
> > forgot to attach the file.
> >
> > Sorry for that.
> >
> > On Sunday 14 June 2009 16:56:47 Harald Gutmann wrote:
> > > Hello once more!
> > >
> > > Here is my patch to activate ACPI on M57SLI.
> > > This patch solves the following issues on this mainboard:
> > >
> > > * ACPI support is added
> > > * PowerNow! for fam10 CPU's is activated
> > > * Soft-Poweroff works
> > >
> > > What this patch does not:
> > > * ACPI support which is accepted by windows.
> > >
> > > Take care on the following:
> > > *** WARNING ***
> > > * This patch needs as dependency the IRQ mptable fix patch[1] (which is
> > > right now not committed) in order to work!
> > >
> > > [1] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2009-June/049570.html
> > >
> > > I have ATM no space to try a windows installation, and I don't own a
> > > windows license and therefore I didn't cared on windows related ACPI
> > > problems.
> > >
> > > It should be quite easy to complete this, that windows also will like
> > > it. If anyone is interested in doing that, please contact me.
> > > I've an IRC-Log from the discussion with Rudolf Marek related to ACPI
> > > on windows and what will be needed to get it right.
> > >
> > > Please be so kindly and review it, so that it can get commited.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Harald Gutmann <harald.gutmann at gmx.net>
> > >
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Harald Gutmann

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