Re: Linux 2.6.24.1 - kernel does not boot; IRQ trouble?

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:55:38 +0000 (GMT) Chris Rankin <rankincj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> --- Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:36:00PM +0000, Chris Rankin wrote:
> > > FYI, this hang still exists in 2.6.24.3 and so I am still needing to boot with the acpi=noirq
> > > parameter.
> > 
> > You're going to have to refresh my memory.  Was this a problem caused by
> > the .1 .2 or .3 kernel releases?  Did 2.6.24 have this problem as well,
> > or was it ok?
> 
> It's a bug introduced in 2.6.24; that ACPI fails to allocate IRQs correctly for PCI devices, which
> makes the kernel hang at boot-time:

You reported this regression nearly a month ago and apart from me flailing
around nobody has bothered to do the slightest thing about it.

If you can identify the offending commit (see
http://www.kernel.org/doc/local/git-quick.html) we'll get it working again
and I really don't care how many commits we have to revert to do it.

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