Re: ACPI hangs kernel boot
Sorry for the dummy question, but what would be the drawback of having
Local APIC disabled?
Thanks,
Bruno.
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:56:33 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine
<frankie@debian.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:51:46AM -0300, Bruno Diniz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop and since the earlier 2.6.0
> > kernel the boot sequence hangs when trying to initialize ACPI. At that
> > time, somebody sent me a patch that solved the problem. Since then,
> > I've been checking whether the newest kernel-image-xxx package has
> > added this patch or something else that solved the problem. So far, it
> > seems nothing has been done.
> >
> > The problem is with the APIC timer, and the patch I'm sending attached
> > disables APIC timer while initializing ACPI and re-enables again after
> > ACPI initialization finishes. Could you please analyse this patch to
> > figure out whether it could be included on the official debian kernel
> > releases?
> >
>
> I can confirm this issue. An easy workaround I used is the 'nolapic' flag
> on boot when acpi is on. BTW I had the same problem with 2.4.26 and 2.6
> series.
>
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