On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:54 +0100, Kevin ALLIX wrote:
> I have tried to get my laptop crashing in console mode, but I have not
> succeeded.
> (Did a 16 hours stress test, with an average load of 28, heavy reads from
> hard
> drive, running out of memory, swapping, net overload, several suspends to
> ram : it didn't freeze)
>
> I will keep on trying to crash it in console mode.
Ok. A couple of other things coming to mind:
- In xorg.conf, section "Device", try Option "DynamicClocks"
"false" (it will increase power consumption of the video chip though).
Check in X log that it indeed disables the dynamic clocks.
- Try the attached kernel patch:
Index: linux-work/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/feature.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/feature.c 2005-11-19
10:56:07.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-work/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/feature.c 2005-12-12
12:17:02.000000000 +1100
@@ -1650,11 +1650,19 @@
*/
if (macio->type == macio_intrepid) {
- if (enable)
- UN_OUT(UNI_N_CLOCK_SPREADING, 2);
- else
- UN_OUT(UNI_N_CLOCK_SPREADING, 0);
- mdelay(40);
+ struct device_node *clock =
+ of_find_node_by_path("/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hw-clock");
+ if (clock && get_property(clock, "platform-do-clockspreading",
+ NULL)) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "%sabling clock spreading on Intrepid"
+ " ASIC\n", enable ? "En" : "Dis");
+ if (enable)
+ UN_OUT(UNI_N_CLOCK_SPREADING, 2);
+ else
+ UN_OUT(UNI_N_CLOCK_SPREADING, 0);
+ mdelay(40);
+ }
+ of_node_put(clock);
}
while (machine_is_compatible("PowerBook5,2") ||
@@ -1724,6 +1732,9 @@
pmac_low_i2c_close(ui2c);
break;
}
+ printk(KERN_INFO "%sabling clock spreading on i2c clock chip\n",
+ enable ? "En" : "Dis");
+
pmac_low_i2c_setmode(ui2c, pmac_low_i2c_mode_stdsub);
rc = pmac_low_i2c_xfer(ui2c, 0xd2 | pmac_low_i2c_write, 0x80,
buffer, 9);
DBG("write result: %d,", rc);
Index: linux-work/arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_feature.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_feature.c 2005-11-14
20:32:16.000000000 +1100
+++ linux-work/arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_feature.c 2005-12-12
12:16:38.000000000 +1100
@@ -1606,11 +1606,19 @@
*/
if (macio->type == macio_intrepid) {
- if (enable)
- UN_OUT(UNI_N_CLOCK_SPREADING, 2);
- else
- UN_OUT(UNI_N_CLOCK_SPREADING, 0);
- mdelay(40);
+ struct device_node *clock =
+ of_find_node_by_path("/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hw-clock");
+ if (clock && get_property(clock, "platform-do-clockspreading",
+ NULL)) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "%sabling clock spreading on Intrepid"
+ " ASIC\n", enable ? "En" : "Dis");
+ if (enable)
+ UN_OUT(UNI_N_CLOCK_SPREADING, 2);
+ else
+ UN_OUT(UNI_N_CLOCK_SPREADING, 0);
+ mdelay(40);
+ }
+ of_node_put(clock);
}
while (machine_is_compatible("PowerBook5,2") ||
@@ -1680,6 +1688,8 @@
pmac_low_i2c_close(ui2c);
break;
}
+ printk(KERN_INFO "%sabling clock spreading on i2c clock chip\n",
+ enable ? "En" : "Dis");
pmac_low_i2c_setmode(ui2c, pmac_low_i2c_mode_stdsub);
rc = pmac_low_i2c_xfer(ui2c, 0xd2 | pmac_low_i2c_write, 0x80,
buffer, 9);
DBG("write result: %d,", rc);
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