Re: [Bug 15289] Regression 2.6.32 -> 2.6.33, Kernel needs a helping key to boot :)

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

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On Monday 01 March 2010, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15289
> 
> --- Comment #30 from AsbjÃrn Sannes <kernelbugzilla@xxxxxxxxxx>  2010-03-01 06:17:06 ---
> hm, so from what I have gathered the previously bisected commit only exposes
> another bug (hidden by enabling hpet). So I started bisecting again, this time
> with hpet=disabled all the way and found:
> 
> commit aa276e1cafb3ce9d01d1e837bcd67e92616013ac
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Mon Jun 9 19:15:00 2008 +0200
> 
> x86, clockevents: add C1E aware idle function
> 
> Reverting this from a non-working 2.6.27 makes it work also. Things have
> changed considerably since then so I was not able to revert it from the newest
> kernel.
> 
> Maybe that disabling of SBX00 hpet msi, only should be done when you do
> actually have floppy support? Makes more people boot atleast :P

Thomas, it looks like something's missing in our C1E handling.  Can you have
a look at this bug report, please?

Rafael
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