Re: [4/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 02:50 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.21-rc2 compared to 2.6.20
> that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree.
> 
> If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
> of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
> of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way
> possibly involved with one or more of these issues.
> 
> Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.
> 
> 
> Subject    : Asus A8N-VM motherboard:
>              framebuffer/console boot failure boot failure (ACPI related)
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/132
> Submitter  : Andrew Nelless <andrew@nelless.net>
> Caused-By  : Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
>              commit 7f8f97c3cc75d5783d0b45cf323dedf17684be19
> Handled-By : Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
> Status     : problem is being debugged
> 

This is not a framebuffer nor console problem.

I think Andrew Nelless confirmed that the cause is from the above
commit. How to fix it, I don't know.  Perhaps the
acpi_skip_timer_override boot option has to be used.

Tony