I've been told that BM_RLD is not a NOP in the PIIX4 - ICH4-M generations;
and that those chips follow the 1st description in the ACPI spec, not
the second.  (I've also submitted a bug against the ACPI spec:-)

So the patch below is no good.
But the old code still isn't quite right.
It seems we should just set BM_RLD at initialization and forget about it
rather than monkeying with it at run-time.

cheers,
-Len


On Thursday 04 October 2007 00:53, Len Brown wrote:
> From: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> The ACPI specification describes PM1*_CNT_BLK.BM_RLD in two places.
> 
> The first description says that the OS needs to set BM_RLD
> to enable bus master activity to wake the processor from C3.
> 
> The second description says that the platform sets BM_RLD
> to indicate whether it was bus master activity that woke the
> platform from C3 or not.
> 
> The first description is erroneous, the second description is correct.
> Delete Linux's implementation of the first description.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> index f182613..4f004f1 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
> @@ -192,26 +192,6 @@ acpi_processor_power_activate(struct acpi_processor *pr,
>               old->promotion.count = 0;
>       new->demotion.count = 0;
>  
> -     /* Cleanup from old state. */
> -     if (old) {
> -             switch (old->type) {
> -             case ACPI_STATE_C3:
> -                     /* Disable bus master reload */
> -                     if (new->type != ACPI_STATE_C3 && pr->flags.bm_check)
> -                             acpi_set_register(ACPI_BITREG_BUS_MASTER_RLD, 
> 0);
> -                     break;
> -             }
> -     }
> -
> -     /* Prepare to use new state. */
> -     switch (new->type) {
> -     case ACPI_STATE_C3:
> -             /* Enable bus master reload */
> -             if (old->type != ACPI_STATE_C3 && pr->flags.bm_check)
> -                     acpi_set_register(ACPI_BITREG_BUS_MASTER_RLD, 1);
> -             break;
> -     }
> -
>       pr->power.state = new;
>  
>       return;
> @@ -1027,7 +1007,6 @@ static void acpi_processor_power_verify_c3(struct 
> acpi_processor *pr,
>                                         " for C3 to be enabled on SMP 
> systems\n"));
>                       return;
>               }
> -             acpi_set_register(ACPI_BITREG_BUS_MASTER_RLD, 0);
>       }
>  
>       /*
> 
-
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