RE: 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot

Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-02-26T02:11:41Z

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@sisk.pl]
>Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:18 AM
>To: Soeren Sonnenburg
>Cc: Oliver Pinter; Linux Kernel; Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>Subject: Re: 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot
>
>On Sunday, 24 of February 2008, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 20:00 +0100, Oliver Pinter wrote:
>> > the pci=nommconf kernel parameter helped it?
>>
>> yes indeed, this switch reliably helps to over come the hang at *this
>> stage* (I tried booting with booth the switch and w/o).
>>
>> however with 50% chance I still see a hang directly after
>>
>> cpuidle: using governor ladder
>
>Do you have CONFIG_CPU_IDLE set? If you have, please try to
>unset it and
>retest.
>

Rafael,

I am looking at the CPU_IDLE part of this regression. Just want to note
that there is another regression with needing pci=nommconf in current
git which was not required in .24. I am not sure whether you are already
tracking that as a different issue.

Thanks,
Venki