On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Rog?rio Brito <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 00:03, Yinghai Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 2012/1/25 Rog?rio Brito <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>> Wild thoughts: I just saw that nouveau calls some ACPI stuff to get
>>>> EDID information and, as ACPI is broken on this notebook, could that
>>>> be a potential reason for the panic that I'm seeing? (Yes, I can take
>>>> a photo of the screen).
>>>
>>> Which 2.6.x kernel works on your laptop without disabling acpi?
>>
>> Unfortunately, no 2.6 kernel has worked on this laptop without
>> acpi=off. I also once booted FreeBSD here just to see how it would
>> behave and it also hang with ACPI enabled.
>>
>> From what I see on this notebook, if ACPI is not turned off, the
>> computer simply hangs once the ACPI is started (it gives one layman
>> like me the impression of entering an infinite loop). But, again, this
>> is just a layman observation of what the system appears to be doing.
>
> My guess is that most of these problems are related, so if we fixed
> whatever causes the ACPI hang, the other problems would probably go
> away, too.
>
> Did you figure out anything about the MTRRs?
Ping :) Let me know if you'd like a patch to print out the MTRR info
later in boot where it will be slow enough to capture in a video.
Bjorn
Hi there.
On Feb 06 2012, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Rogério Brito <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 00:03, Yinghai Lu <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> 2012/1/25 Rogério Brito <[email protected]>:
> >>>>
> >>>> Wild thoughts: I just saw that nouveau calls some ACPI stuff to get
> >>>> EDID information and, as ACPI is broken on this notebook, could that
> >>>> be a potential reason for the panic that I'm seeing? (Yes, I can take
> >>>> a photo of the screen).
> >>>
> >>> Which 2.6.x kernel works on your laptop without disabling acpi?
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, no 2.6 kernel has worked on this laptop without
> >> acpi=off. I also once booted FreeBSD here just to see how it would
> >> behave and it also hang with ACPI enabled.
> >>
> >> From what I see on this notebook, if ACPI is not turned off, the
> >> computer simply hangs once the ACPI is started (it gives one layman
> >> like me the impression of entering an infinite loop). But, again, this
> >> is just a layman observation of what the system appears to be doing.
> >
> > My guess is that most of these problems are related, so if we fixed
> > whatever causes the ACPI hang, the other problems would probably go
> > away, too.
> >
> > Did you figure out anything about the MTRRs?
>
> Ping :) Let me know if you'd like a patch to print out the MTRR info
> later in boot where it will be slow enough to capture in a video.
It's quite late here and I'm going to bed, but tomorrow I will send the
things that I collected so far (not much more, but still).
Thanks for the reminder,
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