Bug 155236 - thinkpad r40e boot failure with acpi enabled.
Summary: thinkpad r40e boot failure with acpi enabled.
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 4
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-04-18 12:56 UTC by Martin Garton
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-04-20 17:56:29 UTC
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makes r40e with bios version 1SET61WW able to boot. (1.25 KB, patch)
2005-04-19 20:45 UTC, Martin Garton
no flags Details | Diff

Description Martin Garton 2005-04-18 12:56:38 UTC
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Description of problem:
linux will not boot unless acpi=off is specified.  Obviously this is undesirable as I would like to at least be able to see battery charge level.

A little testing and a few recompiles to narrow this down showed that setting  "CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=n" enabled booting and other acpi features worked fine.

Ideally should not have to do this workaround since ACPI idle handler is desirable.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.11-1.1240_FC4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. attempt to boot unmodified rpm kernel.


Actual Results:  freeze during boot. reboot required.


Expected Results:  normal boot.

Additional info:

the kernel gets as far as detecting ide hardware before freezing.

Comment 1 Martin Garton 2005-04-18 13:09:53 UTC
I forgot to mention that this is not a recent regression and so not so high
priority perhaps. It hasn't worked on any of the kernels I tested since the
original FC3 one.


Comment 2 Martin Garton 2005-04-19 20:44:03 UTC
I notice there is already something in
linux-2.6.11/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c  for "IBM ThinkPad R40e" but it
doesnt apply to my machine because of a differing bios version (mine appears newer)

I tried adding something similar and now the machine boots with the original
.config supplied in the default fedora rpm.

I don't know if this fixes the issue properly. It apparently prevents the
machine going to c2/c3 but at least users can install and run FC on their
machines until it is fixed better.

See attached patch.


Comment 3 Martin Garton 2005-04-19 20:45:35 UTC
Created attachment 113376 [details]
makes r40e with bios version 1SET61WW able to boot.

Comment 4 Dave Jones 2005-04-20 02:24:00 UTC
Thanks, applied to CVS. Will be in tomorrows build.


Comment 5 Martin Garton 2005-04-20 17:56:29 UTC
works fine now using 2.6.11-1.1251_FC4

thanks.



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