Bug#497692: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: hangs at consolechars invocation during boot

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 01:47:33PM +0200, Gerrit Jan Baarda wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 October 2009 22:11:45 Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:06:12PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> > > Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
> > > Version: 2.6.26-4
> > > Severity: important
> 
> > 
> > Does this still occur with more recent kernels, e.g. 2.6.30?
> > 
> 
> U just tried removing "pci=nommconf iommu=calgary" from my commandline on the 
> latest (sid) 2.6.30-2 kernel and I get a very sluggish system after that. 
> While it doesn't completely freeze (at least not in the time i was testing), 
> you can hardly type on the console, and there are messages about lost 
> interrupts on the console. 
> 
> So yes, things are still broken with recent kernels...

Hi,
The next release of Debian (6.0, code name Squeeze) will be based
on 2.6.32. Please test the current 2.6.32 from unstable and tell
us whether the problem persists. If so, we should report it upstream
to the kernel.org developers.

The 2.6.32 kernel is available from packages.debian.org and can
be installed in both Debian stable, testing and unstable
installations.

Thanks,
        Moritz