generally only lattitude bioses are validated for w2k. all this said, if someone can solve your problem they're going to need to know what model of computer you have.
My initial conclusion may have been faulty afterall, but that something is amiss remains. For the interested, I have had some correspondence on the linux-acpi mailing list (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&r=1&w=2) and am currently testing some things under the private mail advice of Venkatesh Pallipadi. If we come to the conclusion that something really is amiss in the bios, I will report back.
The exact model is Inspiron 6000, BIOS version A09.
Looks like the bios isn't sending all the ACPI info it should to the OS, from what Mr. Pallipadi tells me. Now I have invited him to do a more thorough explanation of what seems to be the problem, so I expect a post from him shortly.
So, inspite of proper _PDC, somehow CPU0CST is not getting loaded, looks like. My suspicion is CFGD value is changed. Can anyone from Dell please comment on CFGD value for this platform and why it is not loading CST0 in this case.
Btw., there are a number of other, more trivial, errors in this bios that would, none the less, be nice to have solved by Dell themselves. Where does one report this? /sunem
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The exact model is Inspiron 6000, BIOS version A09.
Best regards,
Sune Mølgaard
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Best regards,
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Method (_PDC, 1, NotSerialized) { CreateDWordField (Arg0, 0x08, CAP0) Store (CAP0, PDC0) If (LAnd (And (CFGD, 0x4000), LEqual (And (PDC0, 0x0A ), 0x0A))) { If (And (CFGD, 0x03)) { OperationRegion (IST0, SystemMemory, DerefOf (Index (SSDT, 0x01)), DerefOf (Index (SSDT, 0x02 ))) Load (IST0, HI0) } If (And (CFGD, 0x10)) { OperationRegion (CST0, SystemMemory, DerefOf (Index (SSDT, 0x07)), DerefOf (Index (SSDT, 0x08 ))) Load (CST0, HC0) } }} }Name (SSDT, Package (0x0C) { "CPU0IST ", 0x00000000, 0x4F7F9B70, "CPU1IST ", 0x00000000, 0x4F7F9B70, "CPU0CST ", 0x4F7D465C, 0x000001D8, "CPU1CST ", 0x00000000, 0x4F7F9B70 })sunem
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Any ideas?
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