From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git does not boot on Geode LX
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:37:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080120143737.GA9234@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47934FC8.1030800@i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Hi Arnd,
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:42:32PM +0100, Arnd Hannemann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Willy Tarreau schrieb:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just pulled latest -git and tried this morning in on one of my ALIX
> > mobos equipped with an AMD Geode LX800 + CS5536. HEAD is a7da60f41551*.
>
> We boot 2.6.24-rc8 on these mainboards, which BIOS version do you use?
I don"t remember and am not at home right now. I had 1.1 in mind but I may
be wrong.
> > So I tried disabling PCI, MFGPT, etc... But no success yet.
>
> Did you try to boot with nomfgpt?
no, because I did not know about this one. I will try.
> In my experiments disabling CONFIG_GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER won't be enough to
> boot 2.6.24-rc8 on a v0.98 bios or on a v0.99 bios with MFGPT workaround
> turned on in the bios menu.
OK, that's a useful info.
> Otherwise the system will hang in arch/x86/kernel/mfgpt_32.c while
> trying to detect MFGPT timers.
> To clearify, for us the following works:
> v0.99 bios, MFGPT workaround turned off in bios and
> CONFIG_GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER=n
OK thanks very much. I'll try this ASAP.
Cheers!
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-20 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-20 8:14 2.6.24-rc8-git does not boot on Geode LX Willy Tarreau
2008-01-20 9:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-20 9:25 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-01-20 13:42 ` Arnd Hannemann
2008-01-20 14:37 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2008-01-20 17:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-01-21 22:25 ` Andres Salomon
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