Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:37:45 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.7-rc2-mm2
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On Thu, Jun 10 2004, Len Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 11:20, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 03 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >  bk-acpi.patch
> > 
> > Doesn't compile if you disable ACPI, since mp_register_gsi is guarded by
> > 
> > #if defined(CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC) && defined(CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER)
> > 
> > but used in arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c if CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC is set
> > alone. I have to disable ACPI on this box still, otherwise it crashes
> > very hard immediately after displaying ACPI banner.
> 
> "Crashes very hard" I would like to know more.
> Does the box have an IOAPIC?
> If no, does it boot with "nolapic"?

I think you already know all the details, I discussed it with you some
weeks ago :-). Let me know if you don't have the thread, and I'll bounce
it to you.

I'll try nolapic, haven't tried that.

> If yes, does this patch help? 
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269

Will check, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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