Re: ACPI breakage (was: 2.6.x: local APIC results in hang at boot)

[Malte Cornils <mcornils-mcycREo4Un4@public.gmane.org>]

(Mail was on linux-kernel, now moving to acpi-devel as requested)

Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2004 11:47 schrieb Mikael Pettersson:
> On 2004-02-03, Malte Cornils wrote:
> >I've tested this with 2.6.2-rc3 and kernels before that; when I activate
> >the "Enable local APIC" question the kernel hangs with:
> >
> >POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> >enabled ExtInt on CPU#0
> >ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
> >ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
> >Using local APIC timer interrupts.
> >calibrating APIC timer ...
> >..... CPU clock speed is 1399.0856 MHz.
> >..... host bus clock speed is 99.0989 MHz.
> >NET: Registered protocol family 16
> >EISA bus registered
> >PCI: Using configuration type 1
> >mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
> >ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040116
> >ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
> >
> >and then nothing happens.
> >
> >On request, I can send the boot log from the same kernel without local
> >APIC compiled-in; you can also get it from
> >http://www.usta.de/RefAk/Aussen/privat/apic-works.log
> >
> >As I said, it works without the option. (So, this is a problem for
> >people using distribution/generic kernels with the Local-APIC option
> >enabled)
> >
> >This is an Asus Centrino notebook (M2400N) with 1,4 GHz, latest BIOS
> >update and so on. When I enable the local APIC but disable ACPI, it
> >works too - ACPI is used to reroute some interrupts and make e.g. sound
> >work.
>
> This clearly indicates ACPI breakage on your machine.
> Re-report it as such to the ACPI list.

I've added some further info. You can find the dmidecode and biosdecode info 
on: 
http://www.usta.de/RefAk/Aussen/privat/dmidecode.log
http://www.usta.de/RefAk/Aussen/privat/biosdecode.log

Thanks for looking into that,
-Malte

PS: Please Cc: me, I am not subscribed


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