On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 20:21 +0000, David Goodenough wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-8 > Severity: important > > > With kernels up to 2.6.26 this ancient machine did not require any special > kernel boot options, but with 2.6.32 > I need to add noapic to the kernel command in grub. > > If I do not add noapic the kernel gets as far as the pcmcia socket and gets > through that completely, and then hangs > competely - nothing works. > > Looking in the 2.6.26 kernel dmesg just after the initialisation of the > pcmcia socket there were messages about > ACPI derived interrupts. So I thought trying noapic was worth trying noapic, > and now 2.6.32 boots normally.
ACPI and APIC are two entirely different technologies, although they are both involved in interrupt routing. > This suggests that something has changed in the APIC handling for the old > chip in the 430, for the worse. Of course > now manual intervention is required to make this machine boot. Please report this upstream at <http://bugzilla.debian.org> under product 'Platform Specific/Hardware', component 'i386'. Attach the kernel logs for 2.6.32 with and without 'noapic' to the bug report. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
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