linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot unless CONFIG_CPU

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Date:	Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:56:10 -0300
From:	"Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@...il.com>
To:	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Cc:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@....de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot unless CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n-Apple

On Fri  4.Apr'08 at 13:41:45 -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> [...]
> >>> >I've uploaded the picture where it hangs, it is in the very 
> >>beginning
> >>> >of the boot process:
> >>> >
> >>> >http://www.ift.unesp.br/users/crmafra/dsc04673.jpg
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Can you try the latest git and see whether this still is a problem?
> >>
> >>I've just updated to latest git, but it may take some time for it 
> >>to happen again (the first 3 boots were okay). Last time it happened
> >>with 2.6.25-rc7-00149-gaf8be4e (I checked now). 
> >>
> >>Do you have reasons to believe this issue was fixed since then?
> >
> >Yes. I think the patch here should have fixed the problem....
> >Patch : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120674502201007&w=4
> >
> 
> Hmmmm.... Looking at latest git,
> The above patch is not yet in git. Can you please apply the above patch
> and see whether do you still see the problem.....

I applied Venkatesh's patch from the link above on top of 
v2.6.25-rc8-139-ge315c12, but my laptop hung at the 11th boot with the
same state show here:
http://www.ift.unesp.br/users/crmafra/dsc04673.jpg

I waited 3'30" but the boot process never resumed, so I pressed
the power button.

Any further patches I might try?
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