Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:23:55 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 doesn't boot |
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:33:50PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 5:56 pm, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:46:57PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 11:32 am, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:59:18AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 9:09 am, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > 2.6.8-rc3-mm1 boots fine on my computer. > > > > > > 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 doesn't boot. > > > > > > 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 with pci=routeirq boots. > > > > > It happens before the > > floppy0: no floppy controllers found > > line. > > > > Could there be a problem because the floppy driver doesn't find > > anything (there's currently no floppy drive in my computer)? > > Not only is your machine floppy drive-less, but the driver thinks you > don't even have a floppy *controller*, which I assume is separate > from the actual drive. > > What mainboard do you have? Does it boot without "pci=routeirq"
I have an ASRock K7S8X (it was the only Athlon board for under 30 Euro half a year ago...).
It boots without "pci=routeirq" only if I disable ACPI.
> if you turn CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD off?
Yes, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD fixes the problem.
> The code in the floppy_init() -> user_reset_fdc() -> WAIT() -> > wait_til_done() -> reset_fdc() path looks pretty scary if there > really is no controller out there. I'd feel much better if > we at least tried to use ACPI to figure out whether we have > a controller before we try to talk to it. > > All that aside, I still don't see how the pci=routeirq change > would affect the floppy driver. It does request_irq(6, ...), > and it is interesting that you have this: > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 6 > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 6 (level, low) -> IRQ 6 > > which is for your NIC. But the floppy controller isn't a PCI > device, so the LNKD enable shouldn't matter to it. > > Let's see... you're using the PIC model. Maybe the floppy driver > depends on the ACPI_IRQ_MODEL_PIC stuff in acpi_register_gsi()? > Can you post the contents of /proc/interrupts with the floppy > driver and "pci=routeirq"? It seems weird to have the floppy
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CPU0 0: 477284 XT-PIC timer 1: 2354 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 6: 36675 XT-PIC eth0 8: 4 XT-PIC rtc 9: 0 XT-PIC acpi 10: 0 XT-PIC ehci_hcd 11: 41789 XT-PIC Ensoniq AudioPCI, radeon@PCI:1:0:0 12: 13254 XT-PIC i8042 14: 19687 XT-PIC ide0 15: 24 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 5
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> and the NIC share an IRQ, but it looks like that's what should > be happening. > > Bjorn
cu Adrian
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