On Sunday 03 February 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: >* Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I believe its the same, but lemme paste it for sure, yes: >> [ 26.339926] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs >> [ 26.340119] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 >> [ 26.350129] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC >> [ 26.350182] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... >> failed. [ 26.350185] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... >> failed. [ 26.360186] ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... works. >> >> The third line is the only line that makes it to the screen during the >> boot trace. >> >> Now, what does this tell us? > >the question would be: > > - if you remove the acpi_use_timer_override boot flag > - and if you boot a kernel with this hack applied > >=> do those weird PATA failures come back? > >If the failues do _not_ come back then the problem is somehow >affected/worked-around by the IO-APIC code that generates the above 4 >lines. If the failures are still the same then the above 4 lines are >really just an uninteresting side-effect of the acpi_use_timer_override >flag - and the real side-effects (that fixes PATA on your box) are to be >found elsewhere. > >Sadly, the latter variant is the expected answer. > > Ingo And at this point, I can't tell. This reboot was from a cold start, without the argument, and cold by long enough to make the rounds about the house and pick up a beer, but not take my evening pillbox. A minute cold, maybe 2 max. The log is clean since except for a kudzu nag of some sort: [ 50.535388] warning: process `kudzu' used the deprecated sysctl system call with 1.23. which isn't your problem, but fedora's. As I said before, that error has not returned since the first time I used that argument, and I have booted several times now without it. Uptime now is just over an hour though, so I'm not taking bets just yet. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the double lock will keep; May no brick through the window break, And, no one rob me till I awake. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
