On 19.07.2010, Borislav Petkov wrote: 

[Patches]
> Please boot this on your machine and send me the whole dmesg, as usual.

Appying these 2 patches to 2.6.35-rc5 didn't help, the machine is stalling
as usual and several key presses are required to get it to boot.

> Now, if it still shows hickups, we'd like to rule out that there's some
> funny HPET IRQ routing issue so please rerun the same test with the same
> 2 patches ontop but also with "nolapic_timer hpet=verbose" on the kernel
> command line.

Did it, and now it boots fine without any delay/stalling.
Did also try stock/vanilla 2.6.35-rc5 with "nolapic_timer hpet=verbose",
and it does boot fine, too.

> As above, catch the whole dmesg and send it to me.

Attached are three files,

dmesg-01 = output of 2.6.35-rc5 + the two patches
dmesg-02 = output of 2.6.35-rc5 + the two patches + "nolapic_timer
 hpet=verbose"
dmesg-03 = vanilla 2.6.35-rc5 + "nolapic_timer hpet=verbose"

Thanks,
Heinz.