Re: SuSE AMD x86-64 bits installation issue

[Andi Kleen <ak-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

[some comments, although I'm not Hurry]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:57:15AM -0500, Brown, Len wrote:
> If the issue is specific to the SuSE kernel, then you want to file
> it at http://bugzilla.suse.de  More likely this issue is not unique
> to SuSE, and so you should file the bug against the baseline kernel(s).

I believe it is generic (although I haven't retested with latest
2.6 with IO-APIC enabled, older 2.6 showed it)

> 
> How to file a bug against ACPI:
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
> Category: Power Management
> Component: ACPI
> 
> Please attach the output from dmidecode, available in /usr/sbin/, or
> here:
> http://www.nongnu.org/dmidecode/

I don't think dmi blacklisting would do any good. The problem seems
to occur over a wide range of VIA chips with BIOS/motherboards from
multiple vendors. On the x86-64 kernel I actually ended up with checking 
for every bridge from VIA to disable the IO-APIC.

> 
> Please attach the output from acpidmp, available in /usr/sbin/, or in
> here
> http://www.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads/pmtools-20010730.tar.gz
> 
> Please attach /proc/interrupts and the dmesg output showing the failure,
> if possible.

The symptom is when IO-APIC is enabled the system does not boot and 
hangs early in some device driver like IDE. With IO-APIC disabled you obviously
get a very different /proc/interrupts.

-Andi



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