On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 20:21 +0000, David Goodenough wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.32-8
> Severity: important
>
>
> With kernels up to 2.6.26 this ancient machine did not require any special kernel boot options, but with 2.6.32
> I need to add noapic to the kernel command in grub.
>
> If I do not add noapic the kernel gets as far as the pcmcia socket and gets through that completely, and then hangs
> competely - nothing works.
>
> Looking in the 2.6.26 kernel dmesg just after the initialisation of the pcmcia socket there were messages about
> ACPI derived interrupts. So I thought trying noapic was worth trying noapic, and now 2.6.32 boots normally.
ACPI and APIC are two entirely different technologies, although they are
both involved in interrupt routing.
> This suggests that something has changed in the APIC handling for the old chip in the 430, for the worse. Of course
> now manual intervention is required to make this machine boot.
Please report this upstream at <http://bugzilla.debian.org> under
product 'Platform Specific/Hardware', component 'i386'. Attach the
kernel logs for 2.6.32 with and without 'noapic' to the bug report.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Horngren's Observation:
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