linux-kernel - RE: [Bug #10117] 2.6.25-current-git sometimes hangs on boot -dual-core Sony Vaio

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Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:27:21 +0000
From:	Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@....de>
To:	"Pallipadi\, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J\. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>,
	"Carlos R\. Mafra" <crmafra2@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [Bug #10117] 2.6.25-current-git sometimes hangs on boot
	-dual-core Sony Vaio

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:24 -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Soeren Sonnenburg [mailto:kernel@....de] 
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 2:18 PM
> >To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
> >Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki; Adrian Bunk; Carlos R. Mafra; Linux 
> >Kernel Mailing List
> >Subject: RE: [Bug #10117] 2.6.25-current-git sometimes hangs 
> >on boot -dual-core Sony Vaio
> >
> >On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 14:09 -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
[...]
> >> Both of them probabilistically hang early in the boot.
> >> On both !CPUIDLE and hpet=disable seems to be working around the
> >> problem.
> >> Both are Core 2 Duo based with 64 bit kernel.
> >> 
> >> One difference I saw was that #10377 fails on battery. That may be
> >> because when on battery CPUs may be running at lower freq during boot
> >> and that is probably helping this problem in terms of timing.
> >
> >FWIW, this macbook pro1,1 has only a core 1 duo, so x86 == 32bit...
> >Soeren
> >
> 
> Sorry. When I said Core 2, I was referring to Carlos and his updates on
> #10117.

Sorry, I meant that this could be something general and not a amd64
specific change... which I thought could be useful in tracing this...

Soeren
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