Re: 2.6.4-mm1

Len Brown
2004-03-12T15:49:03Z

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 20:03, Neil Brown wrote:

> I've seen this before when trying to boot a P4 kernel on a P-classic
> etc, so I tried compiling with CONFIG_M386, and got lots of compile
> errors:
>
> include/asm/acpi.h: In function `__acpi_acquire_global_lock':
> include/asm/acpi.h:74: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `cmpxchg'
>
fixed in latest ACPI patch.

> So I tried the default (CONFIG_M686) and it still doesn't work.
>
> So: where do I look next?

did you try "acpi=off"
if the system crashed during acpi table parsing, that would happen
before console output; and acpi=off would skip table parsing.

thanks,
-Len