Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: failure to boot on HP nx6325, no sound when booted, USB-related WARNING

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-19T23:53:54Z

On Wednesday, 19 September 2007 21:21, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 19:44 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > It boots with nohpet alone and suspend/hibernation seem to work (still,
> > > > it didn't want to boot right after hibernation, but booted after I'd switched
> > > > it off/on manually).
> > >
> > > Can you please check, whether
> > >
> > > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc6/patch-2.6.23-rc6-hrt2.patch
> > >
> > > works for you ?
> >
> > Nope. It's a total disaster. :-(
>
> True. I have instrumented it to the point where the broadcast device is
> programmed, but no interrupt comes in for totally unknown reasons.
>
> > Doesn't boot at all, even with "noacpitimer nohpet", and that's with
> > NO_HZ and HIGH_RES_TIMERS unset.
>
> > If you have a bisectable patch series, I can try to identify the responsible
> > patch.
>
> http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc6/patch-2.6.23-rc6-hrt2.patches.tar.bz2
>
> The first patches in the queue are the mainline fixups.

It's x86_64-convert-to-clockevents.patch (ie. after applying it the box stops
to boot).

I haven't had the time to check if any special command line arguments help.
Will check tomorrow.

Greetings,
Rafael