Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:21:39 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Malte Cornils <malte@cornils.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: PCI setup hangs on Asus Notebook (nolapic helps)
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> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:43:34 +0200 Malte Cornils <malte@cornils.net> wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
> 
> On Thursday, 21. Juni 2007 14:27 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Booting with nolapic helps, but makes the SATAized IDE controller buggy
> > > [...] There have been other reports of the problem on Asus notebooks. I've
> > > collected some links:[...]
> 
> > Are any of these problems new behaviour, or has it always done this?
> >
> > If there _is_ new behaviour here, are you able to identify which earlier
> > kernel versions did not exhibit it?
> 
> The patch causing that behaviour went in between 2.6.18 and 2.6.19rc-1. I have 
> some 100 patches to go bisecting the bug, but it's slow work due to 
> difficulties in getting physical access to the machine for extended periods 
> of time.
> 
> I'll be sure to let you know when I have the exact commit. That may be at any 
> time from tomorrow to beginning of July, I'm not sure yet what my free time 
> allows.
> 

OK, thanks.  There's no rush but please do persist...
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