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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:33:22 +0100
From: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com>
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Subject: Re: BUG: 2.6.11-rc2 and -rc1 hang during boot on PowerMacs
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:43 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
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>
>>I know about this problem, I'm working on a proper fix. Thanks for your
>>report.
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>
>Can you send me the PVR value for both of these CPUs
>(cat /proc/cpuinfo) ? I can't find right now why they would lock up
>unless the default idle loop is _not_ run properly, that is for some
>reason, NAP or DOZE mode end up not beeing enabled. Can you send me
>your .config as well ?
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Note that when CONFIG_BDI_SWITCH is set, they both end up disabled
because nap & doze seems to perturb the BDI on some cores.

So there is a problem in that case ....

>Finally, try that patch and tell me if it makes a difference. 
>
Yup
 - Without it hangs (not really, it's still half running but serial 
output is stuck
due to no interrupts)
 - With it it works


    Sylvain

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