Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 07:18 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote: >> Tim Gardner wrote: >>> Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 17:47 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >>>>> On 06/21/2007 05:04 PM, Tim Gardner wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> Commit e9e2cdb412412326c4827fc78ba27f410d837e6e breaks boot on a Dell >>>>>> E1501 unless 'acpi=off' is specified (also tried nolapic and nohpet but >>>>>> it made no substantive difference). This laptop is an 'AMD Turion(tm) 64 >>>>>> X2 Mobile Technology TL-50' CPU, but its booting 32 bit SMP (make >>>>>> defconfig). No kernel built after this commit works for this platform. >>>>>> >>>>>> There is no crash output, it just wedges after 'NET: Registered protocol >>>>>> family 2'. >>>>>> >>>>>> How can I debug this problem? >>>>> That'll be fun. >>>>> >>>>> That's: >>>>> >>>>> [PATCH] clockevents: i386 drivers >>>>> >>>>> [Author cc: added] >>>> I'm going nuts on this. >>>> >>>> Tim, >>>> >>>> 1.) are you booting a 32bit or a 64 bit kernel ? >>>> >>>> 2.) Can you please try 2.6.22-rc5 + >>>> http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc5/patch-2.6.22-rc5-hrt1.patch >>>> whether this makes any difference >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> tglx >>>> >>> Thomas, >>> >>> Your patch (large though it is) did not make any outward difference. As >>> usual, adding 'acpi=off' allows it to boot. >>> >>> rtg >> Perhaps I was too hasty. Adding 'acpi=off' did not allow it to boot. The >> IDE drive was detected, but I did not see any partitions detected. >> Eventually it dropped to the initrd shell when it could not find a root >> filesystem. Anyways, this is likely a side issue. > > I am seeing the same with an ACER F5000. > > pci=nomsi let the machine still boot. > > I tried a bit and I think I got it, for me it's this one: > > commit 78b7611c4a1e3ff008abc4751b566cb533d68f3d > Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Jun 1 00:46:33 2007 -0700 > > My problem: The laptop does not have an serial output device, I try to > set up a fire wire console, but might have cable/HW problems. > > What else can I do to help? > What do you need? > > Thanks, > > Thomas > pci=nomsi has no effect, nor does CONFIG_SMP. Furthermore, I positively confirmed that this is the offending commit. If I reset HEAD to the commit just prior, then everything works OK. rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
