On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 22:32 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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. Sorry, I don't know how I came up with that URL... please use the bug tracker at <https://bugzilla.kernel.org>! Then, let us know the bug number so we can track it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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