Hi Arnd, On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:42:32PM +0100, Arnd Hannemann wrote: > > I've just pulled latest -git and tried this morning in on one of my ALIX > > mobos equipped with an AMD Geode LX800 + CS5536. HEAD is a7da60f41551*. > > We boot 2.6.24-rc8 on these mainboards, which BIOS version do you use?
Just checked: 0.98 > Did you try to boot with nomfgpt? Just did, it works perfectly that way, thanks very much! I will try to investigate why this is necessary now. Last 2.6.22.X I used was patched with a geode-mfgpt patch I found which enabled the watchdog (and which worked). So I believe that it will not work anymore right now. > In my experiments disabling CONFIG_GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER won't be enough to > boot 2.6.24-rc8 on a v0.98 bios or on a v0.99 bios with MFGPT workaround > turned on in the bios menu. > Otherwise the system will hang in arch/x86/kernel/mfgpt_32.c while > trying to detect MFGPT timers. > To clearify, for us the following works: > v0.99 bios, MFGPT workaround turned off in bios and > CONFIG_GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER=n I will also check BIOS v0.99 sometime later. Thanks very much for your quick and insightful response! Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
