Re: 2.6.13-mm1: hangs during boot ...

[Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>]

Len Brown wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 03:18 -0400, Peter Williams wrote:
> 
>>http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13/2.6.13-mm1/broken-out/git-acpi.patch
>>
> 
>>I am able to confirm that the problem occurs with vanilla 2.5.13 after
>>I apply the above patch.
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Please then try the latest ACPI patch here:
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release/2.6.13/acpi-20050902-2.6.13.diff.gz
> It should apply to vanilla 2.6.13 with a reject in ia64/Kconfig
> that you can ignore.
> 
> If this works, then we munged git-acpi.patch in 2.6.13-mm1 somehow.

There were no problems with this patch applied.  So it looks like the 
munge theory is correct.

> 
> If this fails, then please confirm it still fails with pnpacpi=off
> 
> if it still fails, then please open a bugzilla here:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI
> component=config-interrupts
> 
> build the failing kernel with CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y
> boot it with "acpi=noirq" and attach the output from
> dmesg -s64000
> lspci -vv
> cat /proc/interrupts
> acpidump, available in the latest pmtools here:
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/
> 
> also include the dmesg -s64000 from the successful
> acpi-enabled 2.6.13 boot, along with its /proc/interrupts.
> 
> If you have a  serial console and can then capture the
> failing console log with "debug", that would be ideal.
> 
> Where we got from there will depend what we see...
> 
> thanks,
> -Len
> 

Peter
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Peter Williams                                   pwil3058@bigpond.net.au

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