HP6710: 7-current can't boot with enabled acpi

[Nate Lawson]

Roman Pavlik wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:43:53PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
>> Perhaps you can post the output of:
>>    diff -u GENERIC BELZEBUB
> 
>> This appears not to be an acpi problem 
> 
> It seems very strange. I play a lot with 7-current+ACPI+GENERIC.  
> Sometimes help disconnecting the AC line. It wrote "cpu0: Cx states changed" 
> and the boot process continue.
> 
> 
>> but I'm not sure which NetLink hw
>> you have, for example.  Posting pciconf -lv would help also.
> 
> pciconf -lv attached.

Please use reply-all.

I think one of the following options prevents the hang:
+#options 	PREEMPTION		# Enable kernel thread preemption
+#options 	ADAPTIVE_GIANT		# Giant mutex is adaptive.

-- 
Nate