[Gnewsense-dev] Linux-libre 2.6.32 (for Lemote)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 13, 2009, Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you mean "poweroff" command not work? just tested the 2.6.32 in the
> git repository again, no problem.

> I guess: you have fogotten the "machtype=8.9" kernel command line,

Your guess was correct.  In fact, I had used 8.9 for some time, then
tried without it, decided it didn't make any difference, discarded it
and didn't think of trying it again when I started running into
problems.  Doh!

I confirm that adding machtype=8.9 to the boot command line makes
poweroff work all the way to the end (i.e., the machine actually powers
off), and that it also brings /proc/apm back to a functional state.
Thanks!

Now the question for gNewSense folks is whether I should add
machtype=8.9 to the in-kernel CONFIG_CMDLINE (presumably this is
overridable with another machtype= directive in the boot-time command
line, so it would be just a default), or whether I can leave it alone
and gNewSense userland and installer will take care of it.  Thoughts?


> do you have "CONFIG_APM_EMULATION=y"?

Yep, =y.

> The yeeloong_battery module is not needed for 2.6.32, it is rewritten and
> merged into arch/mips/loongson/lemote-2f/yeeloong_laptop.c.

Aha!  I didn't realize that, I thought I had only taken a too-early
snapshot of the 2.6.32 port, and that my efforts might have helped
complete the port.  Oh well...

> as you know, I'm pushing the loongson support to the mainline, I need
> to ensure the source code is clean enough.

Yeah, I'm very excited that we'll hopefully be able to use a pristine
2.6.33-libre!  Thanks a lot for your efforts to this end.


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