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Randy.Dunlap wrote: | On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:59:56 -0700 Tobias Rice wrote: | | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | | Hash: SHA1 | | | | I have a single cpu laptop P4 with HT. I assumed that when compiling I'd | | select SMP and Hyperthreading Support, but it gacks when I try to boot | | from the new kernel. Am I wrong to assume I'd use SMP? | | I'm using the 2.6.8.1 from kernel.org and the ck8 patch. | | Yes, you need SMP for HT. Can you try it without the ck patch? | or try 2.6.9-rc3. | | Define gacks. any messages? | By gack I mean all I see is the Loading Linux..... ...and the screen goes black.
I tried many other configurations w/ck and w/o ck and 2.6.9-rc3. 2.6.9-rc3 actully booted once and saw "both" cpus. But my nvida driver won't compile under 2.6.9-rc3 :(
Some errors I saw along the way: Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC. Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ~ ) @ 0x000fdea0 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4071e ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0000 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4071e ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0400 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d4071e ASL 0x00000047) @ 0x1fff0c00 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Processor #1 15:2 APIC version 20 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached. Processor ignored. Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: ACPI: Skipping IOAPIC probe due to 'noapic' option. Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Built 1 zonelists Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=LinuxOLD ro root=1604 noapic video=vesa Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Initializing CPU#0 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes) Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Detected 3190.523 MHz processor. Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Memory: 513948k/524092k available (2845k kernel code, 9388k reserved, 1170k data, 168k init, 0k highmem) Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 6324.22 BogoMIPS Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Intel machine check architecture supported. Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz stepping 09 Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Oct 6 21:24:16 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
After google'n around about the Dell BIOS broken... I forced acpi on by commenting out some lines in my /usr/src/linux/arc/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c file and recompiled. I no longer get the message. ACPI seem to be working. CPUDyn is working. Since smp/ht needs acpi I hoped that editing my source would fix it. I checked off the smp/2 and ht in my 2.6.8.1-ck9 .config and recompiled. Black screen again, frozen, no errors. Arrrrrggg!
Any suggestions? TIA Tobias -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
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