Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:12:26 +0200 | From | Alessio Sangalli <> | Subject | Re: APM problem after 2.6.13.5 |
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Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Alessio, > > On 6/16/06, Alessio Sangalli <alesan@manoweb.com> wrote: >>>> if I enable "APM support" I get a freeze at the very beginning of the >>>> boot, without any explicit erro message, just after the PCI stuff. If >>>> you need a transcript of the messages at boot, let me know, I will have >>>> to write them by hand). >>>> 2.6.13.5 is ok. I need APM support to let the "Fn" key and the battery >>>> meter work! > > Pekka Enberg wrote: >>> There's a lot of changes between 2.6.13 and 2.6.14. It would be >>> helpful if you could narrow down the exact changeset that broke your > > On 6/16/06, Alessio Sangalli <alesan@manoweb.com> wrote: >> done: >> >> 4196c3af25d98204216a5d6c37ad2cb303a1f2bf is first bad commit >> diff-tree 4196c3af25d98204216a5d6c37ad2cb303a1f2bf (from >> 9092b20803e4b3b3a480592794a73030f17370b3) >> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> >> Date: Sun Oct 23 16:31:16 2005 -0700 >> >> cardbus: limit IO windows to 256 bytes >> >> That's what we've always historically done, and bigger windows seem to >> confuse some cardbus bridges. Or something. >> >> Alan reports that this makes the ThinkPad 600x series work properly >> again: the 4kB IO window for some reason made IDE DMA not work, which >> makes IDE painfully slow even if it works after DMA timeouts. >> >> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> >> >> :040000 040000 629d4d303048bffa610017e81e0e744bae08660d >> 33e154ffe96822d09f37ae2d433de5152216501b M drivers >> >> >> let me know any other test I should do to help find a solution to this >> problem, thank you! > > So reverting the above commit from git head makes your box boot again? > Linus, any thoughts?
Yes, exactly. I can run 2.6.17-rc6 with only that commit reverted.
The mahcine is a notebook COMPAQ Presario 800 Model 80XL4 Pentium3@700MHz 256MB ram etc
Thank you ciao Alessio Sangalli
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