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    SubjectRe: ACPI Regression on Dell E1501
    Tim Gardner wrote:
    > Thomas Gleixner wrote:
    >> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 17:47 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
    >>> On 06/21/2007 05:04 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
    >>>> Hi,
    >>>>
    >>>> Commit e9e2cdb412412326c4827fc78ba27f410d837e6e breaks boot on a Dell
    >>>> E1501 unless 'acpi=off' is specified (also tried nolapic and nohpet but
    >>>> it made no substantive difference). This laptop is an 'AMD Turion(tm) 64
    >>>> X2 Mobile Technology TL-50' CPU, but its booting 32 bit SMP (make
    >>>> defconfig). No kernel built after this commit works for this platform.
    >>>>
    >>>> There is no crash output, it just wedges after 'NET: Registered protocol
    >>>> family 2'.
    >>>>
    >>>> How can I debug this problem?
    >>> That'll be fun.
    >>>
    >>> That's:
    >>>
    >>> [PATCH] clockevents: i386 drivers
    >>>
    >>> [Author cc: added]
    >> I'm going nuts on this.
    >>
    >> Tim,
    >>
    >> 1.) are you booting a 32bit or a 64 bit kernel ?
    >>
    >> 2.) Can you please try 2.6.22-rc5 +
    >> http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc5/patch-2.6.22-rc5-hrt1.patch
    >> whether this makes any difference
    >>
    >> Thanks,
    >>
    >> tglx
    >>
    >
    > Thomas,
    >
    > Your patch (large though it is) did not make any outward difference. As
    > usual, adding 'acpi=off' allows it to boot.
    >
    > rtg

    Perhaps I was too hasty. Adding 'acpi=off' did not allow it to boot. The
    IDE drive was detected, but I did not see any partitions detected.
    Eventually it dropped to the initrd shell when it could not find a root
    filesystem. Anyways, this is likely a side issue.

    rtg
    --
    Tim Gardner tim.gardner@ubuntu.com
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