Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264664AbUDVUnJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:43:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264669AbUDVUnJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:43:09 -0400 Received: from mail-haw.bigfish.com ([12.129.199.61]:7648 "EHLO mail43-haw-R.bigfish.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264664AbUDVUnD (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:43:03 -0400 Message-ID: <40882E49.2040705@lehman.com> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:42:49 -0400 From: "Shantanu Goel" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Len Brown" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ACPI x86_64] 2.6.1-rc{1,2} hang while booting on Sun v20z aka Newisys 2100 References: <1082653547.16336.335.camel@dhcppc4> <408820D7.10400@lehman.com> <1082666116.16336.391.camel@dhcppc4> In-Reply-To: <1082666116.16336.391.camel@dhcppc4> X-WSS-ID: 6C96F1C0208552-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BigFish: v Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1911 Lines: 44 >>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... > > But that still does not explain why RedHat AS3 works on the same machine with the same BIOS settings without specifying any acpi related parameters. As far as I can tell, AS3 is using an older version of the ACPI code. It reports "ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030619" when booting. So barring some hack RedHat has in there, clearly something has changed along the way to break things on this machine... Thanks, Shantanu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. - 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/