Re: PMU, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)
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 would be in the initramfs. If it's in the
initramfs, we need to unpack it before it can be loaded...
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