Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [Bug 8136] 2.6.21-rc2-mm2 won't boot | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2007 01:32:07 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:15, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:36:29 -0800 > bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8136 > > > > Let's take this to email. > > > > > > > > > ------- Additional Comments From Nicolas.Mailhot@LaPoste.net 2007-03-06 15:36 ------- > > Created an attachment (id=10631) > > --> (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=10631&action=view) > > Printscreen with vesfg disabled and earlyprintk=vga > > > > So rc2-mm2 panics due to "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC" and > rc2-mm1 does not.
I'm observing a similar thing on my dual-core AMD64 testbed desktop. Still, another dual-core AMD64 machine I have runs -rc2-mm2 just fine.
One of the differences between them is that the failing one uses gcc 4.1.0 (sigh).
> Could be ACPI, could be x86_64 timer changes, could be something else. > > Would you have time to bisect it? > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt > explains how. > > If so, I'd suggest you drill in on the patches between > x86_64-mm-defconfig-update.patch and > optimize-and-simplify-get_cycles_sync.patch: the x86 changes.
I'll try to debug it tomorrow.
Greetings, Rafael
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