Subject: Re: [Dell PowerEdge 350] I2O support in NetBSD
To: Igor Sobrado <igor@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/14/2005 12:31:28
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:52:01AM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote:
> > > ACPI may help with this.
>
> ACPI was the next feature I wanted to configure, but there are some
> problems with it. After changing the GENERIC.local file in this
> way:
>
> ----------------------------------------
> # $NetBSD: GENERIC.local,v 1.1 1996/09/09 16:37:08 mycroft Exp $
> #
> # GENERIC.local -- local additions to the GENERIC configuration
> #
>
> options CONSDEVNAME="\"com\"",CONADDR=0x2f8,CONSPEED=9600
> options CONS_OVERRIDE # Always use above! independent of boot info
>
> acpi0 at mainbus0
> options ACPI_PCI_FIXUP # PCI interrupt routing via ACPI
> options ACPI_ACTIVATE_DEV # If set, activate inactive devices
> #options ACPICA_PEDANTIC # force strict conformance to the Spec.
> #options ACPI_DISABLE_ON_POWEROFF # disable acpi on power off
>
> acpiacad* at acpi? # ACPI AC Adapter
> #acpibat* at acpi? # ACPI Battery
> acpibut* at acpi? # ACPI Button
> acpiec* at acpi? # ACPI Embedded Controller
> #acpilid* at acpi? # ACPI Lid Switch
> acpitz* at acpi? # ACPI Thermal Zone
>
> #com* at acpi? # Serial communications interface
> #fdc* at acpi? # Floppy disk controller
> #lpt* at acpi? # Parallel port
> #npx* at acpi? # Math coprocessor
> #pckbc* at acpi? # PC keyboard controller
> #wss* at acpi? # NeoMagic 256AV in wss mode
> ----------------------------------------
>
> (enabling mainboard devices certainly do not help, e.g. com0 and com1
> are moved to com2 and com3)
>
> But now there are some "lost interrupt" messages related with
> piixide0:1:0.
So the interrupt for the second channel isn't working any more. Maybe
ACPI_PCI_FIXUP cause problems on this system ...
> I2O is missing from the output of dmesg yet...
Did you try MPACPI_SCANPCI ? If the I2O devices are not in the PCI config
space nor in the ACPI tables, I can't see how an OS could find them.
Is there something showing up in BIOS ?
--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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