Re: [Bug 529] New: ACPI under 2.5.50+ (approx) locks system hard during bootup

Jos Hulzink (josh@stack.nl)
Wed, 2 Apr 2003 01:07:58 +0200


On Tuesday 01 April 2003 21:55, Matthew Harrell wrote:
> I've tried every kernel I could get to build up through 2.5.66 and nothing
> changed. Same behavior every time
>
> Also, I can get them all to boot into single user mode. I'm going to check
> if the hang is caused by the loading of the alsa modules (which run on the
> same interrupt) or something else.

The only way I can boot recent 2.5 kernels is to make sure my BIOS does
nothing that even smells like ACPI. The only response I got so far on the
lkml is "disable acpi support" and "disable apic support". The only
conclusion I can make is that the ACPI support in 2.5 is buggy enough to
prevent 2.5 to emerge into 2.6 for a long time from now, and unfortunately
nobody seems to care. I detected big IRQ / ACPI / APIC trouble since about
2.5.44 - 2.5.53, and nothing has changed since.

NFI, I just don't understand that a core problem that prevents me from booting
2.5 kernels, is noticed by so few others that it is able to remain unfixed
for so long.

Jos

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