Re: 2.6.24.4 Sonics Silicon Backplane problems in dmesg

From: Larry Finger
Date: Sun May 04 2008 - 19:35:30 EST


Larry Finger wrote:
I'm attempting to bring up a Compaq F752US laptop running Gentoo. The
kernel.org 2.6.24.4, Gentoo Vanilla-sources and 2.6.24-gentoo-r4
kernels all fail to boot without selecting the 'noapic' option on the
kernel command line. If I add noapic irqpoll the machine does boot but
I see this problem for all 3 kernels:

Is this possibly caused by having to choose the noapic irqpoll options?

<SNIP>
WARNING: at drivers/ssb/main.c:883 ssb_tmslow_reject_bitmask()
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 #4
[<c0375e3f>] ssb_tmslow_reject_bitmask+0x4b/0x56
[<c0376504>] ssb_device_is_enabled+0x9/0x2d

The warning above is caused by the configuration of the device below. I found
and fixed this problem several months ago, but after the 2.6.24 window closed.

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan
mini-PCI (rev 02)

The problem is fixed in the wireless-testing.git tree, and in mainline 2.6.25. It is unlikely that it is causing the boot problem; however that could be checked by trying 2.6.25.


Larry
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