Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat"

Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat"

[Andrew Morton]

Luis Miguel García <ktech@wanadoo.es> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >
> >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2/2.6.2-mm1/ 
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> - Merged some page reclaim fixes from Nick and Nikita.  These yield some
> >>  performance improvements in low memory and heavy paging situations.
> >>
> >>
> 
> Andrew, do you know if this acpi pull down has nforce support fixed?

It doesn't appear that way.

> Or perhaps it's even unnotified to the acpi team?

I do not know.  Sending them a bugzilla ID would help, if such a thing exists.

Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat"

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Thursday 05 February 2004 14:16, you wrote:
> Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> >On Thursday 05 February 2004 09:44, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> >
> >Still doesn't boot on my nForce 2 system, hangs while probing PDC RAID
> > card. Confirmed from 2.6.2-rc3-mm1 that it was likely related to ACPI
> > changes, but reverting bk-acpi.patch makes no difference.
> >
> >I'd like to test mainline, but I'm using gcc 3.4 snapshot, so I'll try
> > later today with 2.6.2 + linus.patch.
>
> Same here, hangs probing hpt366 ide controller. After some time says:
>
> hde: lost interrupt
>
> boots ok with pci=noacpi
>
> Lenar

This fix doesn't work for me because I get problems if I disable ACPI IRQ 
routing and still have apic enabled. Normally these problems would be 
gracefully solved, but my USB HCD complains about not having been assigned an 
IRQ.

This ACPI problem is definitely present in mainline, so this is a regression 
at least on my nForce 2.

If this is helpful, in 2.6.2-rc1-mm1 I would see:

..MPBIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC.

This error seemed to be harmless and made no difference to the kernel while 
booting. It's been like that since latter 2.5 kernels, so that's quite a long 
time. The board is an EPoX 8RDA+ in case this is a vendor bug.

Now, instead, I see (in 2.6.2 and 2.6.2-mm1):

IOAPIC[0]: Invalid reference to IRQ 0

Later my kernel hangs when detecting hde, as described in another thread.
pci=noacpi allows me to get to init, but it breaks my USB HCD.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat"

[Lenar Lõhmus]

Alistair John Strachan wrote:

>This fix doesn't work for me because I get problems if I disable ACPI IRQ 
>routing and still have apic enabled. Normally these problems would be 
>gracefully solved, but my USB HCD complains about not having been assigned an 
>IRQ.
>  
>
Actually it's exactly the same here I'm just not bothered by my USB HCD 
not having an IRQ since
my USB mouse still works.

It says this when booting:

PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:02.0. Please try 
using pci=biosirq.
drivers/usb/core/hcd-pci.c: Found HC with no IRQ.  Check BIOS/PCI 
0000:00:02.0 setup!

All I can say is that in 2.6.1-rc1-mm1 it worked and I could have all my 
interrupts off the XT-PIC.

Lenar


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