Re: [Bug 8136] 2.6.21-rc2-mm2 won't boot

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mardi 06 mars 2007 Ã 16:15 -0800, Andrew Morton a Ãcrit :
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:36:29 -0800
> bugme-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8136

> So rc2-mm2 panics due to "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC" and
> rc2-mm1 does not.
> 
> Could be ACPI, could be x86_64 timer changes, could be something else.
> 
> Would you have time to bisect it? 
> 
> 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.

Removing the x86 patchset (342-430) and utrace (647-663) makes the
system boot. (no surprise, but good to confirm). I'll try a few more
tests tomorrow, need to sleep now.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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