From: Bruce Lowekamp <lowekamp@CS.WM.EDU>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: enabling AMD_PM768 causes boot hang in 2.4.20-rc3
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 15:58:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5410000.1038257898@chorus.cs.wm.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1038183180.28491.14.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
--On Monday, November 25, 2002 12:13:00 AM +0000 Alan Cox
<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 19:15, Bruce Lowekamp wrote:
>>
>> With a dual-processor A7M266-D MB (two AMD XP-MP 1900+), enabling
>> CONFIG_AMD_PM768 causes the machine to hang on boot.
>>
>> I don't think this is a major concern for the release because the
>> description of this parameter includes EXPERIMENTAL (although it is not
>> flagged to be selectable on when experimental options are enabled).
>>
>> A few details: The kernel is booted with noapic (has always hung
>> otherwise). It hangs right after listing the drives and ide interfaces,
>> and right before it prints out the geometry of the first drive. This is
>> the output prior to hanging:
>
> Does it work loaded as a module ?
>
Nope. Got the prompt back and then it hung.
I put my .config online (temporarily) at
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~lowekamp/amd_pm768-config if that helps diagnose
anything.
Thanks,
Bruce
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2002-11-23 19:15 Bruce Lowekamp
2002-11-25 0:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-25 20:58 ` Bruce Lowekamp [this message]
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