Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git does not boot on Geode LX

From: Andres Salomon
Date: Mon Jan 21 2008 - 17:25:26 EST


On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:14:42 +0100
Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just pulled latest -git and tried this morning in on one of my ALIX
> mobos equipped with an AMD Geode LX800 + CS5536. HEAD is a7da60f41551*.
>
> Last kernel which runs on it was 2.6.22.14. I've not yet tried intermediate
> kernels nor tried to bisect yet. Last messages are :
>
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Memory: 257304k/262144k available (1506k kernel code, 4400k reserved, 370k data,
> 136k init, 0k highmem)
> virtual kernel memory layout:
> fixmap : 0xffffb000 - 0xfffff000 ( 16 kB)
> vmalloc : 0xd0800000 - 0xffff9000 ( 759 MB)
> lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xd0000000 ( 256 MB)
> .init : 0xc02d8000 - 0xc02fa000 ( 136 kB)
> .data : 0xc0278970 - 0xc02d5504 ( 370 kB)
> .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc0278970 (1506 kB)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
> SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 997.59 BogoMIPS (lpj=1995180)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0088a93d c0c0a13d 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (32 bytes/line), D cache 64K (32 bytes/line)
> CPU: L2 Cache: 128K (32 bytes/line)
> CPU: After all inits, caps: 0088a93d c0c0a13d 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000000
> 0 00000000 00000000
> Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
> CPU: AMD Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS stepping 02
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> Freeing SMP alternatives: 0k freed
> net_namespace: 64 bytes
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> -----> hangs here <-----
>
> In 2.6.22, the PCI is probed after this last message :
>
> CPU: AMD Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS stepping 02
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> Setting up standard PCI resources
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
>
> So I tried disabling PCI, MFGPT, etc... But no success yet.
>

Hi Willy,

If this is in fact true (that GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER was disabled), the
machine hung, and with nomfgpt it didn't hang.. That sounds like
our geode_mfgpt_detect call hung. Do you have "MFGPT Workaround"
selected in the BIOS? I'm curious whether enabling or disabling
that makes a difference..

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