Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:56:44 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 Spurious ACK/NAK on isa0060/serio0, 2.6.18-rc2 is fine |
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:34:34AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:10:52AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > So I tried 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 on my opteron. (Running 64-bit) > > > > The kernel did not boot, but went into an infinite loop of > > > > Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0 > > over and over. I have two keyboards, one attached the usual > > way and another attached where a mouse usually goes. > > This works fine with 2.6.18-rc2, but no longer now. > > One keyboard is dead, and on the other, two of the > > leds blink on and off. > > > > Unplugging a keyboard changes the repeating message to > > Spurious NAK ... instead. > > > > Unplugging both keyboards stops the nonsense, but then - no keyboard. > > > > This kernel also fails to mount root, a fact that is hard to see as > > the stupid messages quickly scroll everything else away. > > That might be something simple like the changed ATA config > > or multithreaded pci probe. > > > > There just cannot be any program "trying to access hw directly", > > I don't get the root fs so I don't even have init running. > > > I got rid of the multithreaded PCI probe - and the root fs was > recognised again (I have both SATA and SCSI, perhaps they > were probed in wrong order)
Are you using the ata_piix driver by chance for your root partition? If so, the multi-thread stuff will not work unless you use the hack below.
> Curiously enough, the keyboard trouble went away too. Odd. > Now posting from a working 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 (With the jiffies hotfix)
The keyboard stuff is very odd, your keyboard should not be on the PCI bus :(
thanks,
greg k-h
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Subject: Driver: multi-threaded hacks
- Fix "issue" with ata_piix doing multi-threaded boot
Use at your own risk.
--- drivers/scsi/ata_piix.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/ata_piix.c +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/scsi/ata_piix.c @@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ static int __init piix_init(void) if (rc) return rc; - in_module_init = 0; +// in_module_init = 0; multi-threaded probe doesn't like this... DPRINTK("done\n"); return 0; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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