linux-kernel - Re: [4/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

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Date:	Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:35:19 +0800
From:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Nelless <andrew@...less.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	Yaroslav Halchenko <kernel@...russian.com>,
	Alex Romosan <romosan@...orax.lbl.gov>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [4/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 02:50 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.21-rc2 compared to 2.6.20
> that are not yet fixed in Linus' tree.
> 
> If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one
> of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch
> of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way
> possibly involved with one or more of these issues.
> 
> Due to the huge amount of recipients, please trim the Cc when answering.
> 
> 
> Subject    : Asus A8N-VM motherboard:
>              framebuffer/console boot failure boot failure (ACPI related)
> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/132
> Submitter  : Andrew Nelless <andrew@...less.net>
> Caused-By  : Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
>              commit 7f8f97c3cc75d5783d0b45cf323dedf17684be19
> Handled-By : Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@...il.com>
> Status     : problem is being debugged
> 

This is not a framebuffer nor console problem.

I think Andrew Nelless confirmed that the cause is from the above
commit. How to fix it, I don't know.  Perhaps the
acpi_skip_timer_override boot option has to be used.

Tony

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