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Bug#622997: Debian bug 622997



On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 14:28 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 10:23 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > It's most likely a driver module that's getting loaded which is turned
> > off in the booting configuration ... finding it isn't going to be easy,
> > though ...
> 
> Finally got a build (had to swap out -Os for -O2).
> 
> I traced the module loads and successful inits and found it; it's
> pata_cmd64x  ... it loads but never returns from init.  I bet it's
> trying to poke into ISA space which causes the HPMC.
> 
> Removing this one module from the system allows it to boot again.
[...]

We also had a recent report that this driver is also bust on some sparc
systems.  We could swap back to cmd64x on these architectures but I
would rather get pata_cmd64x fixed.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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