Re: [ACPI-sppt] Missing /proc/acpi

Lars Noschinski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.acpi.support
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paulo Andre' ([email protected]) wrote:
> Lars Noschinski wrote:
>> On my IBM R40 Notebook, I have no "/proc/acpi", instead I have
>> "/proc/ac_adapter", "/proc/battery", "/proc/button" etc, but none of
>> them contains anything. The tested kernels are 2.5.73-75. What could
>> be wrong there?
>> 
>> (It may be, that the BIOS is buggy, as newer BIOS revisions cause the
>> kernel to panic during ACPI-initialisation).
>> 
> Apparently, your system had trouble initializing ACPI in the first
> place (it panics during kernel init as you say) which means you then
> have no ACPI support and therefore no /proc entries for it.

But I get /proc/ac_adapter /proc/battery etc. which should be in
/proc/acpi if I'm correct.

Nevertheless, only newer BIOS version cause a panic (with a complete
lockup), the version I use currently gives the following dmesgs:

ACPI: RSDP (v002 IBM                        ) @ 0x000f6d20
ACPI: XSDT (v001 IBM    TP-1P    00000.04224) @ 0x1ff6b501
ACPI: FADT (v003 IBM    TP-1P    00000.04224) @ 0x1ff6b600
ACPI: SSDT (v001 IBM    TP-1P    00000.04224) @ 0x1ff6b7b4
ACPI: ECDT (v001 IBM    TP-1P    00000.04224) @ 0x1ff74e89
ACPI: TCPA (v001 IBM    TP-1P    00000.04224) @ 0x1ff74eda
ACPI: BOOT (v001 IBM    TP-1P    00000.04224) @ 0x1ff74fd8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM    TP-1P    00000.04224) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist
ACPI: MADT not present
Building zonelist for node : 0
[...]
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030619
 tbxface-0117 [03] acpi_load_tables      : ACPI Tables successfully acquired
Parsing all Control
Methods:................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Table [DSDT](id F005) - 1117 Objects with 57 Devices 336 Methods 15 Regions
Parsing all Control Methods:.
Table [SSDT](id F003) - 1 Objects with 0 Devices 1 Methods 0 Regions
ACPI Namespace successfully loaded at root c051147c
evxfevnt-0093 [04] acpi_enable           : Transition to ACPI mode successful
evgpeblk-0748 [06] ev_create_gpe_block   : GPE 00 to 31 [_GPE] 4 regs at 0000000000001028 on int 9
ACPI: Found ECDT
ACPI: Could not use ECDT
evxfevnt-0139 [06] acpi_disable          : ACPI mode disabled
 utalloc-0986 [05] ut_dump_allocations   : No outstanding allocations.
[...]
ACPI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Invalid ACPI-PCI IRQ routing table



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