Re: 2.6.3-mm3 hangs on boot x440 (scsi?)

john stultz
2004-02-27T01:02:13Z

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 16:14, john stultz wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:15, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 03:02:56PM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 13:26, john stultz wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 06:40, Go Taniguchi wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > > john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > > > >>I went back to 2.6.3-mm1 (as it was a smaller diff) and the problem was
> > > > > >>there as well.
> > > > >
> > > > > Problem patch is expanded-pci-config-space.patch.
> > > > > x440 can not enable acpi by dmi_scan.
> > > > > expanded-pci-config-space.patch need acpi support.
> > > > > So, kernel can not get x440's xAPIC interrupt.
> > > >
> > > > Wow, thanks for that analysis Go! I'll test it here to confirm.
> > >
> > > Yep, I've confirmed that backing out the expanded-pci-config-space patch
> > > solves it. Thanks again, Go, for hunting that down!
> > >
> > > Matthew, any ideas why the patch fails if the system has an ACPI
> > > blacklist entry?
> >
> > Hrm. I was just asked to break out some of the ACPI code rearrangement
> > from the rest of the patch. Can you try this patch instead of the
> > expanded-pci-config-space.patch and tell me whether it continues to fail
> > for you?
>
> Unfortunately it does still hang with that patch.

Actually, I took a second to actually look at that patch and I realized
it was just the ACPI changes, rather then just the PCI changes.

So yes, it seems that the patch narrows down the issue to just the ACPI
changes, which isn't so unfortunate!

thanks
-john