Re: PowerMac7,3 insists it has 0 batteries and no AC power!

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:34:53PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 20:28 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a PowerMac7,3 machine (dual G5 970FX). It does not run Linux
> > continously just yet. So I installed anacron as I do for all such
> > computers. This is a stock Debian sarge installation (in particular, I
> > do not compile my own kernel).
> > 
> > Over the last few weeks I've noticed the dlocate database is always
> > out of date....it seems the kernel insists I am running on battery
> > power with zero batteries.
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > shyamal@turtle:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/anacron start
> > Starting anac(h)ronistic cron: deferred while on battery power.
> > 
> > shyamal@turtle:~$ cat /proc/pmu/info
> > PMU driver version     : 2
> > PMU firmware version   : 0c
> > AC Power               : 0
> > Battery count          : 0
> > 
> > shyamal@turtle:~$ dmesg | grep -i pmu
> > via-pmu: Server Mode is disabled
> > PMU driver 2 initialized for Core99, firmware: 0c
> > 
> > shyamal@turtle:~$ grep -i pmu /boot/config-2.6.8-power4-smp
> > CONFIG_ADB_PMU=y
> > 
> > shyamal@turtle:~$ grep CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK /boot/config-2.6.8-power4-smp
> > CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK=y
> 
> G5s aren't supposed to turn CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK on ... Yes, the battery/AC
> code doesn't work on desktops.

Well, i guess the sane thing would be to disable these pmac specific stuff on
-smp configs, since i doubt we will see any dual processor powerbook anytime
soon.

That said, should those drivers not realise they are on unsupported hardware
and refuse to be loaded or something ? Like we did for the serial drivers ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther