From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261608AbULZDgl (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:36:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261609AbULZDgl (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:36:41 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:18345 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261608AbULZDgk (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:36:40 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 19:36:36 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Bill Davidsen cc: Kernel Mailing List , Bjorn Helgaas , Andrew Morton , Len Brown Subject: Re: Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10 In-Reply-To: <41CE282C.3010606@tmr.com> Message-ID: References: <41CE282C.3010606@tmr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Alas, It sort-of boots but is terminally slow. I see the log with > endless repetitions of "irq 18 nobody cared" and some trace, then > "disabling irq 18." Unfortunately it lies, after about 20MB of this I > decided it had no real intention of disabling irq 18 and tried to stop > it. After ten minutes I had to pull the plug and it's still cleaning > filesystems. Can you send a (normal) dmesg output for this machine, and describe what is normally on irq18? It _sounds_ like it's a confusion between level and edge, with the usual suspects. Does it go away if you disable acpi? Linus