Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Jul 30 2005 - 13:05:57 EST


Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 16:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Serial console is broken on ia64 on an HP rx2600 machine on
> > > 2.6.13-rc3-mm3. When kernel is booted up with "console=ttyS,...", no
> > > output ever appears on the console and system is hung. So I booted the
> > > kernel with "console=uart,mmio,0xff5e0000" to enable early console and
> > > here is how far the kernel got before hanging:
> >
> > (cc the ia64 and acpi lists)
> >
> > OK, thanks. There have been a few serial driver changes recently, but
> > there's also a tremendous ACPI patch in -mm. I'm wondering about those
> > ACPI error messages:
> >
> > > -------
> > > Linux version 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 (root@mars) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)) #4 SMP Fri Jul 29 16:30:41 MDT 2005
> > > EFI v1.10 by HP: SALsystab=0x3fb38000 ACPI 2.0=0x3fb2e000 SMBIOS=0x3fb3a000 HCDP=0x3fb2c000
> > > booting generic kernel on platform hpzx1
> > > PCDP: v0 at 0x3fb2c000
> > > Explicit "console="; ignoring PCDP
> > ..............
> > > NET: Registered protocol family 16
> > > ACPI: bus type pci registered
> > > ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050708
> > > ACPI-0509: *** Error: Method execution failed [\PARS.GFIT] (Node e0000002ffff8a00), AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> > > ACPI-0509: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.SBA0._INI] (Node e0000002ffffa780), AE_BAD_PARAMETER
> > > ACPI: Interpreter enabled
> > > ACPI: Using IOSAPIC for interrupt routing
> >
> > Does the above happen on 2.6.13-rc3 or 2.6.13-rc4?
>
> No, I do not see this on 2.6.13-rc3. It does seem ACPI is busted on
> 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 which is leading to kernel not being able to scan PCI bus
> and set up IRQ routing.
>

OK, thanks. Could I suggest that you raise a bug against ACPI 20050708 at
bugzilla.kernel.org containing the info we've generated thus far?

And thanks for testing -mm: we really don't want to permit this to leak
into mainline...
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