From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: commit a802dd0e breaks console keyboard input
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:28:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081024072826.GA4620@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49011234.7090902@gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 05:09:24PM -0700, walt wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> commit a802dd0eb5fc97a50cf1abb1f788a8f6cc5db635
> Author: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> Date: Mon Oct 13 23:50:08 2008 +0200
>
> Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls.
>
> This commit causes the console login prompt to ignore my keystrokes
> so I'm unable to log in (though ssh works fine). Oddly, if I hit
> ctrl-alt-delete the machine does reboot, but no other keystrokes
> appear on the screen or have any effect that I can detect.
>
> No surprise that this problem appears only on my dual-core amd64
> machine, while the k7 single processor machine works normally.
>
> I've not seen anyone else complaining on the linux list, so maybe
> this is a BIOS bug on the affected machine? It's an ECS mobo with
> a GeForce6100PM-M2 chipset, and I use a ps/2 keyboard.
Uh? How did you get to this commit? I assume a git bisect?
Strange.. I'm going to have a look at it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-24 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-24 0:09 walt
2008-10-24 7:28 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2008-10-24 11:07 ` Heiko Carstens
2008-10-24 12:52 ` w41ter
2008-10-24 19:44 ` Heiko Carstens
2008-10-24 23:13 ` walt
2008-10-25 14:16 ` Heiko Carstens
2008-10-25 18:48 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-10-25 20:36 ` walt
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