I check, watchdog still doesn't work with acpi=off, nor with pnpacpi=off I will try to check technical documents about chipset, to find any reference to watchdog registers, maybe i can see there something useful.
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:39:08 -0500, Len Brown wrote > On Friday 01 February 2008 14:15, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > > > > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:11:41 -0500, Len Brown wrote > > > > > > What do you see if you build with CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=n > > > > > > Does it work better if you boot with "acpi=off"? > > > if yes, how about with just pnpacpi=off? > > > > > > thanks, > > > -Len > > > > It is not very easy to test. About bug - most probably it is related to third > > party ESFQ patch, i will drop it and then test more properly when i will be > > able to make watchdog work fine. But more important i notice - that iTCO_wdt > > is not working at all. I think hrtimers doesn't change anything on that. > > About testing, i cannot take even small risk now(and near 3-5 days) by > > changing kernel options, i set now maximum available set of watchdogs, cause > > there is noone to maintain server, area is unreachable because of snow and > > bad weather. > > > > Do you think reasonable to try acpi / pnpacpi with iTCO_wdt to make it work? > > Maybe just registers addresses or way how TCO watchdog activated changed on > > this chipset? > > yes, i'm wondering if the changes in IO resource reservations > in the PNPACPI layer are interfering with the native driver. > > unfortunately, if you boot with acpi=off or pnpacpi=off, you may > run into other, unrelated, issues (or not). > > one way to isolate the problem is if you revert these two lines > from their 2.6.24 values to their 2.6.23 values by applying this patch: > --- > diff --git a/include/linux/pnp.h b/include/linux/pnp.h > index 2a6d62c..16b46aa 100644 > --- a/include/linux/pnp.h > +++ b/include/linux/pnp.h > @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ > #include <linux/errno.h> > #include <linux/mod_devicetable.h> > > -#define PNP_MAX_PORT 40 > -#define PNP_MAX_MEM 12 > +#define PNP_MAX_PORT 8 > +#define PNP_MAX_MEM 4 > #define PNP_MAX_IRQ 2 > #define PNP_MAX_DMA 2 > #define PNP_NAME_LEN 50 -- Denys Fedoryshchenko Technical Manager Virtual ISP S.A.L. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
