[ltp] Can't boot recent kernels on T40p

[Loic Minier]

Greg Meyer <mdklists@gkmweb.com> - Mon, Aug 16, 2004:

> It is my understanding that there is a bug in the mm patches for 2.6.7 and 
> later kernels that prevent the lapic from being disabled at runtime.  I saw a 
> message to LKML that said it must be disabled in the kernel config and 
> compiled in.  I have not tried this, so I cannot comment on whether this is 
> correct or not as I have elected to stay on a 2.6.5 kernel for the time 
> being.

 Yeah I was suspecting the mm patches too, I just built a 2.6.8.1 not mm
 patched, and it seems to work fine.

> The only problem I experienced with 2.6.7 on my T41 without lapic disabled is 
> that the machine won't power down at shutdown.  You must use the power button 
> after the shutdown sequence completes.

 Same here, I boot with the nolapic configuration parameter.  This is
 still true for 2.6.8.1.

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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>