On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:00:50PM -0300, Bruno Diniz wrote: > Is there a problem with the idea of "turn off APIC timer before ACPI > initialization and then turn back on after ACPI initialization > finishes"? This is exactly what the tiny patch I've sent does. I would > agree that 'nolapic' boot param "solves" the problem, but IMHO the > idea above is clearer and works perfectly. >
The idea is clear, but that patch does not work on the 2100 I tried. It was already implemented in current 2.6.8 AFAIK and it has exactly the same problem of hang up. > Thanks, > > Bruno. > > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:52:35 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok I verified that: > > > > * This issue is yet valid for current 2.6.8 with acpi=on > > * It's valid for 2.4 series up to 2.4.27 with acpi=on > > * Patch proposed in 2.6.8 does not solve the issue, so it can be removed. > > > > The only workaround in all cases is the 'nolapic' boot param. > > > > -- > > Francesco P. Lovergine > > > > -- Francesco P. Lovergine
