From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751395AbWFPNJE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:09:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751391AbWFPNJE (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:09:04 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:52449 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751398AbWFPNJC (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:09:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4492AE3A.7070309@manoweb.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:12:26 +0200 From: Alessio Sangalli User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pekka Enberg CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: APM problem after 2.6.13.5 References: <44927F91.6050506@manoweb.com> <84144f020606160305ueae2050lc2d8f47944173971@mail.gmail.com> <44929CF5.208@manoweb.com> <84144f020606160540q20433601jd9b5331763a55dab@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <84144f020606160540q20433601jd9b5331763a55dab@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:98b9443de46bd48dbf34b16449aa5d76 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Alessio, > > On 6/16/06, Alessio Sangalli wrote: >>>> if I enable "APM support" I get a freeze at the very beginning of the >>>> boot, without any explicit erro message, just after the PCI stuff. If >>>> you need a transcript of the messages at boot, let me know, I will have >>>> to write them by hand). >>>> 2.6.13.5 is ok. I need APM support to let the "Fn" key and the battery >>>> meter work! > > Pekka Enberg wrote: >>> There's a lot of changes between 2.6.13 and 2.6.14. It would be >>> helpful if you could narrow down the exact changeset that broke your > > On 6/16/06, Alessio Sangalli wrote: >> done: >> >> 4196c3af25d98204216a5d6c37ad2cb303a1f2bf is first bad commit >> diff-tree 4196c3af25d98204216a5d6c37ad2cb303a1f2bf (from >> 9092b20803e4b3b3a480592794a73030f17370b3) >> Author: Linus Torvalds >> Date: Sun Oct 23 16:31:16 2005 -0700 >> >> cardbus: limit IO windows to 256 bytes >> >> That's what we've always historically done, and bigger windows seem to >> confuse some cardbus bridges. Or something. >> >> Alan reports that this makes the ThinkPad 600x series work properly >> again: the 4kB IO window for some reason made IDE DMA not work, which >> makes IDE painfully slow even if it works after DMA timeouts. >> >> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds >> >> :040000 040000 629d4d303048bffa610017e81e0e744bae08660d >> 33e154ffe96822d09f37ae2d433de5152216501b M drivers >> >> >> let me know any other test I should do to help find a solution to this >> problem, thank you! > > So reverting the above commit from git head makes your box boot again? > Linus, any thoughts? Yes, exactly. I can run 2.6.17-rc6 with only that commit reverted. The mahcine is a notebook COMPAQ Presario 800 Model 80XL4 Pentium3@700MHz 256MB ram etc Thank you ciao Alessio Sangalli