On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 12:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:36:55 -0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7726] New: New LSI MegaRAID driver fails when ACPI > is not present > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7726 > > Summary: New LSI MegaRAID driver fails when ACPI is not present > Kernel Version: 2.6.17+ > Status: NEW > Severity: normal > Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Submitter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Most recent kernel where this bug did *NOT* occur:n/a > Distribution:gentoo > Hardware Environment:i686 > Software Environment:gcc 4.1.1, glibc 2.5 > Problem Description: > during kernel boot, with noacpi option, megaraid driver detects and attempts > to > start the controller. it fails and goes into an endless loop of error > "waiting > for N commands to finish" and reset sequences.
this smells like a bios bug; the symptoms match horked irq routing; not uncommon nowadays if you use the legacy, pre-acpi tables :( -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
