On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:15:39PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:37:58AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Brad Boyer wrote: > > > > The basic idea is that any time the PMU thinks you aren't following the > > > > right communication protocol (including the timing between messages) it > > > > will just shut off because it thinks the OS crashed. So if it is in a > > > > multi-message handshake and something disables interrupts for too long, > > > > the system will just power off. > > > > > > So the solution would be to load the PMU driver earlier? > > > > That might be the issue. I'm surprised it's not loaded earlier than > > the step where it failed. > > If it's not compiled in
It is present in your kernel binary (and indeed can't be built as a module) but it is buggy. The PMU driver is started by adb_init() which is a device_initcall, but this happens too late. I worked around the problem successfully by making it an arch_initcall instead. Finn > it would be in the initramfs. If it's in the initramfs, we need to > unpack it before it can be loaded... > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.OSX.2.00.1108131722010.189@ibook.local
