From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1: boot failure on HPC nx6325
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 12:15:06 +0200
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On Monday, 3 September 2007 10:36, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:39 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Saturday, 1 September 2007 06:58, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > - dynticks-for-x86_64 has returned
> > 
> > It fails to boot on my HPC nx6325 (hangs very early, before any messages reach
> > the console), because of this patch:
> > 
> > x86_64-convert-to-clockevents.patch
> 
> Sigh. Can you try
> 
> noapictimer
> nohpet
> 
> on the kernel commandline please ?

nohpet is sufficient to make it work.

> Also it would be interesting whether the -hrt patchset on top of rc5 has
> the same problem:
> 
> http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc5/patch-2.6.23-rc5-hrt1.patches.tar.bz2

I'll try that later.

Greetings,
Rafael
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