RE: 2.6.25-current-git hangs on boot unless CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=n-Apple

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 22:31 -0700, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
[...]
> >I applied Venkatesh's patch from the link above on top of 
> >v2.6.25-rc8-139-ge315c12, but my laptop hung at the 11th boot with the
> >same state show here:
> >http://www.ift.unesp.br/users/crmafra/dsc04673.jpg
> >
> >I waited 3'30" but the boot process never resumed, so I pressed
> >the power button.
> >
> >Any further patches I might try?
> 
> Carlos,
> 
> Hmm. So, we still have some bug hidden in there..
> As this is similar to 10117, we should probably track this there.
> 10093 is a different cpuidle specific bug looks like, as it happens at a
> different place while switching between governors.
> 
> Can you attach your kernel config, acpidump output and dmesg when kernel
> boots ok to that bugzilla.

you could use what I've send as I was seeing this bug too... but maybe
his config (sony vaio?) is well directly point to the problem.

[...]
> One more qn. Did you see this problem witj 2.6.24 as well or is this
> something that you started seeing only recently?

This thing I can answer: yes this is new in 2.6.25 and in there since at
least 23 Feb 2008.

Soeren

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