Re: ACPI hangs kernel boot
Sorry to insist, but don't anybody know if it's difficult to include
the patch I sent to the current debian 2.6 kernel? I think it's not a
big issue, since the patch is tiny and localized. What's wrong with
it?
Anybody has something to say?
Thanks,
Bruno.
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:13:28 -0300, Bruno Diniz <bruno.diniz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Francesco P. Lovergine
> >
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