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From: Michael Frank <mflt1@micrologica.com.hk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@ucw.cz>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.21-rc7 hang on boot after spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ15.
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 16:57:19 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306141657.19854.mflt1@micrologica.com.hk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1055578663.7651.1.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Saturday 14 June 2003 16:17, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The system executes a regular boot from _reset_ at this stage.
> > swsusp takes over once the kernel is up and restores the
> > suspended kernel
> > Could it be that the kernel does not handle a spurious int at
> > this early stage in the boot process ?
>
> It may also be BIOS SMI handling or reset handling problems as a
> similar case a vendor investigated showed to be. The first thing is
> to make life easier for the BIOS - make sure your kernel doesnt have
> APIC support included

APIC is not in the kernel

I put 

  __asm__("int $0x2f");

before calibrate_delay and inside as well for testing.
spurious 8259A int15 was reported  and up to 18000 counted in 
/proc/interrupts, but no hang ;-) 

I suppose have to settle for hardware/BIOS (IRQ misrouted/8259 
init problem or timer not working) as the cause for the hang

Regards
Michael

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-06-14  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-13  3:36 2.4.21-rc7 hang on boot after spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ15 Michael Frank
2003-06-13 19:48 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-06-14  3:24   ` Michael Frank
2003-06-14  8:17     ` Alan Cox
2003-06-14  8:57       ` Michael Frank [this message]

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