On Saturday 29 April 2006 20:30, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> I have a pair of Athlon64 machines that dual-boot 32-bit and
> 64-bit kernels. One annoying difference between the kernels
> is that the PC Speaker driver (CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=y) only
> works in the 32-bit kernels.
Ah, I would consider this more a feature than a bug but ok :)
> In the 64-bit kernels it remains
> inactive and doesn't even generate any boot-time initialisation
> or error messages.
>
> Today I debugged that issue, and found that the PC Speaker
> driver's ->probe() routine doesn't even get called in the
> 64-bit kernels. The reason for that is that the arch code
> apparently has to explictly add a "pcspkr" platform device
> in order for the driver core to call the ->probe() routine.
> arch/i386/kernel/setup.c unconditionally adds a "pcspkr"
> device, but the x86_64 kernel has no code at all related to
> the PC Speaker.
>
> The patch below copies the relevant code from i386 to x86_64,
> which makes the PC Speaker work for me on x86_64.
Ok thanks. Applied.
> Is there a better way to do this? ACPI?
Maybe. ACPI folks, any opinion?
-Andi (known to rip out the speaker cables in new machines)
>
> /Mikael
>
> diff -rupN linux-2.6.17-rc3/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c linux-2.6.17-rc3.x86_64-pcspkr/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c
> --- linux-2.6.17-rc3/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c 2006-04-28 20:54:10.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.17-rc3.x86_64-pcspkr/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c 2006-04-29 18:42:08.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1426,3 +1426,22 @@ struct seq_operations cpuinfo_op = {
> .show = show_cpuinfo,
> };
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR
> +#include <linux/platform_device.h>
> +static __init int add_pcspkr(void)
> +{
> + struct platform_device *pd;
> + int ret;
> +
> + pd = platform_device_alloc("pcspkr", -1);
> + if (!pd)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + ret = platform_device_add(pd);
> + if (ret)
> + platform_device_put(pd);
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> +device_initcall(add_pcspkr);
> +#endif
>
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