Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: failure to boot on HP nx6325

Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-18T20:42:56Z

On Tuesday, 18 September 2007 22:21, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 September 2007 10:18, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc6/2.6.23-rc6-mm1/
> >
> > 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 is a 29MB diff against 2.6.23-rc6.
> >
> > It took me over two solid days to get this lot compiling and booting on a few
> > boxes. This required around ninety fixup patches and patch droppings. There
> > are several bugs in here which I know of (details below) and presumably many
> > more which I don't know of. I have to say that this just isn't working any
> > more.
> >
> > - The Vaio hangs when quitting X due to x86_64-mm-cpa-clflush.patch, but
> > I didn't drop that patch because the iommu patch series depends on it.
> >
> > - 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.

Greetings,
Rafael