I just tried with the irqpoll option which prevents the kernel oops indeed (unlike without the patch) but I still get the timeout waiting for hardware interrupt message. The number of irqs seems to be exceedingly high, e.g. cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 20239 2789 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 84 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 0 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 181 73 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 1431 340 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix 15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix 16: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi pata_jmicron 18: 933200 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi r852, mmc0 ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html