[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu Karmic and power management

[Lori Paniak]

Are these parameters good for grub and/or grub2?  Does grub2 pass them
in the same manner as we are used to in plain grub?

I think the hope of an automated upgrade across bootloaders from
Jaunty(grub) to Karmic(grub2) is faint.  The claim is that an in-place
upgrade will not change the bootloader, but reports suggest otherwise.
I have not had any trouble with fresh Karmic installs on several
machines.

Some, possibly helpful, notes on bootloader upgrades in ubuntu:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Grub2Testing

The best approach appears to be to test grub2 in Jaunty (as outlined in
the link) and iron out any glitches before any upgrade to Karmic. 



On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 02:34 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> 
> > Khalid writes:
> >
> > > To this:
> > >
> > > kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic
> > > root=UUID=d2d0abec-e28f-42bc-9afa-ba6faca5ed20 ro quiet splash
> > > *acpi_osi="Linux"*
> >
> > Surely we don't use the stars around the parameter? And I expect
> > that was intended to be all on one line...
> >
> > Where are these obscure things documented?  I found
> > http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt but
> > it's remarkably vague on what the 'acpi_osi' strings are and what
> > they actually do.
> 
>   that kernel-parameters.txt file is typically *way* out of date.
> you're better off searching the kernel source itself for the
> definitions of kernel parameters.  with the exception of "early"
> parameters, kernel parms are defined with the "__setup" macro, so you
> can see what the relevant kernel parms are for ACPI using something
> like:
> 
> $ grep -rw __setup drivers/acpi
> drivers/acpi/video_detect.c:__setup("acpi_backlight=", acpi_backlight);
> drivers/acpi/video_detect.c:__setup("acpi_display_output=", acpi_display_output);
> drivers/acpi/osl.c:__setup("acpi_os_name=", acpi_os_name_setup);
> drivers/acpi/osl.c:__setup("acpi_osi=", acpi_osi_setup);
> drivers/acpi/osl.c:__setup("acpi_serialize", acpi_serialize_setup);
> drivers/acpi/osl.c:__setup("acpi_wake_gpes_always_on", acpi_wake_gpes_always_on_setup);
> drivers/acpi/osl.c:__setup("acpi_enforce_resources=", acpi_enforce_resources_setup);
> drivers/acpi/acpica/tbxface.c:__setup("acpi_no_auto_ssdt", acpi_no_auto_ssdt_setup);
> drivers/acpi/pci_link.c:__setup("acpi_irq_isa=", acpi_irq_isa);
> drivers/acpi/pci_link.c:__setup("acpi_irq_pci=", acpi_irq_pci);
> drivers/acpi/pci_link.c:__setup("acpi_irq_nobalance", acpi_irq_nobalance_set);
> drivers/acpi/pci_link.c:__setup("acpi_irq_balance", acpi_irq_balance_set);
> $
> 
>   so the above tells you that the kernel parameter "acpi_osi" is
> defined in drivers/acpi/osl.c:
> 
> ===== snip =====
> 
> int __init acpi_osi_setup(char *str)
> {
>         if (str == NULL || *str == '\0') {
>                 printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX "_OSI method disabled\n");
>                 acpi_gbl_create_osi_method = FALSE;
>         } else if (!strcmp("!Linux", str)) {
>                 acpi_cmdline_osi_linux(0);      /* !enable */
>         } else if (*str == '!') {
>                 if (acpi_osi_invalidate(++str) == AE_OK)
>                         printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX "Deleted _OSI(%s)\n", str);
>         } else if (!strcmp("Linux", str)) {
>                 acpi_cmdline_osi_linux(1);      /* enable */
>         } else if (*osi_additional_string == '\0') {
>                 strncpy(osi_additional_string, str, OSI_STRING_LENGTH_MAX);
>                 printk(KERN_INFO PREFIX "Added _OSI(%s)\n", str);
>         }
> 
>         return 1;
> }
> 
> __setup("acpi_osi=", acpi_osi_setup);
> 
> 
> ===== snip =====
> 
>   it should be obvious how the above works -- you can define any
> routine which accepts a character string value for a kernel parameter,
> then tie the parameter name to that routine.  the routine is then free
> to parse/interpret that value however it pleases.
> 
>   was that helpful?
> 
> rday
> --
> 
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> 
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