Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264662AbUDVUfg (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:35:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264663AbUDVUfg (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:35:36 -0400 Received: from fmr02.intel.com ([192.55.52.25]:36253 "EHLO caduceus.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264662AbUDVUfZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:35:25 -0400 Subject: Re: [ACPI x86_64] 2.6.1-rc{1,2} hang while booting on Sun v20z aka Newisys 2100 From: Len Brown To: Shantanu Goel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <408820D7.10400@lehman.com> References: <1082653547.16336.335.camel@dhcppc4> <408820D7.10400@lehman.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1082666116.16336.391.camel@dhcppc4> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3 Date: 22 Apr 2004 16:35:16 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2116 Lines: 64 On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 15:45, Shantanu Goel wrote: > This works ok though again with only one cpu coming up. Here is the output: > > Bootdata ok (command line is ro root=LABEL=/ console=ttyS0 console=tty0 > debug acpi=off) > Linux version 2.6.5-x86_64 (root@njlxlabstinger2) (gcc version 3.2.3 > 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-24)) #2 SMP Thu Apr 22 14:50:09 EDT 2004 > Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 > Virtual Wire compatibility mode. > SMP mptable: bad signature [  ]! > BIOS bug, MP table errors detected!... > ... disabling SMP support. (tell your hw vendor) This explains why MPS doesn't boot SMP when acpi=off... > > >Anyway, try acpi=ht to get your cpus back. > > > > > > This hangs. Here is the output: > > Bootdata ok (command line is ro root=LABEL=/ console=ttyS0 console=tty0 > debug acpi=ht) > Linux version 2.6.5-x86_64 (root@njlxlabstinger2) (gcc version 3.2.3 > 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-24)) #2 SMP Thu Apr 22 14:50:09 EDT 2004 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326 > ACPI: Interpreter enabled oops, acpi=ht doesn't work on x86_64 -- yet. > >More interesting would be if pci=noacpi works on 2.6. > > > > This hangs as well. Here is the output: > > Bootdata ok (command line is ro root=LABEL=/ console=ttyS0 console=tty0 > debug pci=noacpi) > Linux version 2.6.5-x86_64 (root@njlxlabstinger2) (gcc version 3.2.3 > 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-24)) #2 SMP Thu Apr 22 14:50:09 EDT 2004 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4 > Virtual Wire compatibility mode. > SMP mptable: bad signature [<3>BIOS bug, MP table errors detected!... > ... disabling SMP support. (tell your hw vendor) Broken BIOS/MPS tables own this failure. See if you can disable MPS in the BIOS/SETUP. that is, after you verify you've got the latest BIOS... cheers, -Len - 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/