linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 8136] 2.6.21-rc2-mm2 won't boot

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Message-Id: <1173252969.20978.4.camel@rousalka.dyndns.org>
Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:36:09 +0100
From:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@...oste.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"bugme-daemon@...nel-bugs.osdl.org" 
	<bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 8136] 2.6.21-rc2-mm2 won't boot

Le mardi 06 mars 2007 à 16:15 -0800, Andrew Morton a écrit :

> So rc2-mm2 panics due to "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC" and
> rc2-mm1 does not.
> 
> Could be ACPI, could be x86_64 timer changes, could be something else.
> 
> Would you have time to bisect it? 
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt
> explains how.
> 
> If so, I'd suggest you drill in on the patches between
> x86_64-mm-defconfig-update.patch and
> optimize-and-simplify-get_cycles_sync.patch: the x86 changes.

I may have some more debug time this evening (CET), probably not enough
for a full bisection. I'd really love to have timer/clock problems
nailed once and for all on this box (MP BIOS, RTC, HPET, whatever)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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