Latest 2.6.33 git(30ff056..) failed to boot on a x86_64 box with errors during mptsas/mptbase initialization. I also noticed a warning during ACPI initialization. Performance Events: AMD PMU driver. ... version: 0 ... bit width: 48 ... generic registers: 4 ... value mask: 0000ffffffffffff ... max period: 00007fffffffffff ... fixed-purpose events: 0 ... event mask: 000000000000000f ACPI: Core revision 20091214 ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:111 __ioremap_caller+0x169/0x2f1() Hardware name: BladeCenter LS21 -[79716AA]- Modules linked in: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.33-git6-autotest #1 Call Trace: [] ? __ioremap_caller+0x169/0x2f1 [] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0xa4 [] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x11 [] __ioremap_caller+0x169/0x2f1 [] ? acpi_os_map_memory+0x12/0x1b [] ioremap_nocache+0x12/0x14 [] acpi_os_map_memory+0x12/0x1b [] acpi_tb_verify_table+0x29/0x5b [] acpi_load_tables+0x39/0x15a [] acpi_early_init+0x60/0xf5 [] start_kernel+0x397/0x3a7 [] x86_64_start_reservations+0xa5/0xa9 [] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe1/0xe8 ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- ioremap reserve_memtype failed -22 ACPI Exception: AE_NO_ACPI_TABLES, While loading namespace from ACPI tables (20091214/tbxface-604) ACPI: Unable to load the System Description Tables I observed similar failure with x86_32 as well. 2.6.33-git5 (847f9c6...) worked fine. Have attached dmesg log. Thanks -Sachin -- --------------------------------- Sachin Sant IBM Linux Technology Center India Systems and Technology Labs Bangalore, India ---------------------------------