Sorry to insist, but don't anybody know if it's difficult to include the patch I sent to the current debian 2.6 kernel? I think it's not a big issue, since the patch is tiny and localized. What's wrong with it?
Anybody has something to say? Thanks, Bruno. On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:13:28 -0300, Bruno Diniz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for the dummy question, but what would be the drawback of having > Local APIC disabled? > > Thanks, > Bruno. > > > > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:56:33 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:51:46AM -0300, Bruno Diniz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop and since the earlier 2.6.0 > > > kernel the boot sequence hangs when trying to initialize ACPI. At that > > > time, somebody sent me a patch that solved the problem. Since then, > > > I've been checking whether the newest kernel-image-xxx package has > > > added this patch or something else that solved the problem. So far, it > > > seems nothing has been done. > > > > > > The problem is with the APIC timer, and the patch I'm sending attached > > > disables APIC timer while initializing ACPI and re-enables again after > > > ACPI initialization finishes. Could you please analyse this patch to > > > figure out whether it could be included on the official debian kernel > > > releases? > > > > > > > I can confirm this issue. An easy workaround I used is the 'nolapic' flag > > on boot when acpi is on. BTW I had the same problem with 2.4.26 and 2.6 > > series. > > > > -- > > Francesco P. Lovergine > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > Bruno Diniz de Paula > -- Bruno Diniz de Paula
