5.3-RELEASE TODO

[Oliver Brandmueller]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:14:03AM -0400, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> That would be me.  Here's a summary of what I encountered (all this can 
> be found in the "SMP problems with -CURRENT (and BETA5)":
> 
> With HTT enabled in the BIOS:
> 
> 1) With ACPI and APIC enabled: Locking up after detecting my hard drives 
> and launching the second processor.
> 
> 2) With ACPI disabled and APIC enabled:  Crashing with a "Fatal trap 9".
> 
> 3) With both ACPI and APIC disabled: Success.
> 
> With HTT disabled in the BIOS:
> 
> 1) With ACPI and APIC enabled:  Locking up after detecting my hard drives.
> 
> And, I'd agree with your assesment that, no matter the cause, this is a 
> pretty significant show-stopping bug :-)

I tried (inspired by thread "FDC/ACPI/GEOM problems") booting with the 
floppy disk controller disabled in the BIOS. That works fine for me. SO 
it seems the problem is somewhere in that direction then.

- Oliver

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