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

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-19T17:32:28Z

On Wednesday, 19 September 2007 09:06, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 23:37 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > - The Vaio also hangs during resume-from-RAM, due to git-acpi.patch
> > > > >
> > > > > - And it hangs during suspend-to-RAM, due to git-acpi.patch
> > >
> > > Sorry, I was wrong.
> > >
> > > > On my HP nx6325 it only boots with "noacpitimer nohpet" on the command line,
> > > > but then it works.
> > >
> > > It _sometimes_ boots with "noacpitimer nohpet" and that's if I press the power
> > > button for a couple of times during boot (before any messages appear on the
> > > console).
> > >
> > > > Suspend-to-RAM and hibernation work too. :-)
> > >
> > > No, they don't (I must have booted -rc6 instead of it by mistake, sigh).
> > >
> > > > Since 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 only booted with nohpet because of
> > > >
> > > > x86_64-convert-to-clockevents.patch
> > > >
> > > > I guess that the boot problems with this one result from the same patch.
> > >
> > > Not sure any more ...
> > >
> > > I'll try to compile it with NO_HZ and HIGH_RES_TIMERS unset.
> >
> > OK, in that configuration it's much better.
> >
> > 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. :-(

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.

Greetings,
Rafael